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8528. TREATIES, Binding force of.—[further continued] .

I deny that the most explicit
declaration made at this moment, that we acknowledge the obligation of the
[French] treaties, could take from us the
right of non-compliance at any future time,
when compliance would involve us in great
and inevitable danger.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 617. Ford ed., vi, 224.
(1793)