The Macon Bill No 2 was an American bill so called from its author, Nathaniel Macon, which was passed by Congress on May the 1st, 1810, as a means of extricating the United States from the difficulties caused by the aggressions of England and France. It provided that commerce should be free, but that if either England should withdraw her Orders in Council or France her Berlin and Milan Decrees, intercourse should be prohibited with the nation which retained them. Research Macon Bill No 2
Nathaniel Macon was an American politician. He was born in 1757 at North Carolina and died in 1837. He was a Representative from 1791 to 1815, was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807. From 1815 to 1828 he was a Senator from North Carolina. A Democratic-Republican of the strictest type, he was noted for his political uprightness and purity. He was a principal member of the faction called 'Quids'. Research Nathaniel Macon
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