reciprocity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RECIPROC'ITY, noun Reciprocal obligation or right; equal mutual rights or benefits to be yielded or enjoyed. The commissioners offered to negotiate a treaty on principles of reciprocity
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