Letters of Marque and Reprisal in the United States

Letters of Marque and Reprisal

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 255 LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISALLetters of marque and reprisal are commissions that governments of belligerent powers grant to private ship-owners (called “privateers”) authorizing them to seize the vessels and property of enemy subjects on the high seas. During the Revolutionary War both the states
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