Stephen E. Flynn Quotes
Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.
Stephen E. Flynn, Commander, U. S. Coast Guard, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, “Beyond Border Control,” Foreign Affairs, November / December 2000
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The entire exploration, founding and colonization of New York was a business enterprise right from the start.
This quotation illustrates two important points. First, that foreign and domestic trade and merchants were very much appreciated at the time and an important component of society that there were special protections for traders and merchants. Second, was the national preemption of jurisdiction and control over business and commerce that would enter and leave the city. On most matters the local authorities would handle things, but intercity and international commerce was historically continuously impaired by individual nobles and other authorities making rules affecting merchants who might come to their town or city. The Crown preempted this authority in the 13th century and the “Commerce Clause” of our Constitution was not an unusual concept and had an extensive legal and economic history.
Turgot was one of the most advanced economic thinkers in Europe and realized, even before most of the Americans, that by freeing itself England, that the Americans would be forced to become free traders and that in turn would make America a major Economic power despite the fact that American economic policy over the years vacillated between protectionism and free trade.
It is very easy for an American company to make parts in the United States, ship them to Mexico for assembly and bring the finished product back. However, for counties like France it is much more difficult.
