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3399. GENERATIONS, Binding power.—[continued].
Can one generation of
men, by any act of theirs, bind those which are
to follow them? I say, by the laws of nature,
there being between generation and generation,
as between nation and nation, no other obligatory
law.—
To Joseph W. Cabell. Washington ed. vi, 299.
(M.
1814)
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