That practical give-and-take, with an unabashed bias to protecting and preserving the home market for domestic producers, was the key tenant of what Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln later called ...

Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System — a blueprint for national strength and self-sufficiency. Developed in the early 19th ...

Longnecker was apparently named for Henry Clay (1777-1852), the Speaker of the House of Representatives who forged the Compromise of 1820 and later 1850 that held the country together before the ...