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Thomas Jefferson enforced the Embargo Act.
Vigilantism is what, I believe, the term means. When Daylight Justice (the long arm of the law), fails, Midnight Justice (the citizens), pool/team together to inflict some ''Midnight Justice'' in the ways the long arm of the law cannot.
It would be false to say the Navigation Acts were strictly enforced, as they were not. Americans were against the restrictions and smuggled the products they wanted.
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