“Smuggling is a crime, which occupies so prominent a place in the criminal legislation of all modem states, is wholly the result of vicious commercial and financial legislation”

John Ramsay McCulloch. A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation by the Late J. R. M'Culloch, Longmans, Gren & Company, 1871 p. 1298; About the origin of smuggling

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