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8536. TREATIES, Infractions of.—[further continued].

If, in withholding a
compliance with any part of the treaties, we
do it without just cause or compensation, we
give to France a cause of war, and so become
associated in it on the other side.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 618. Ford ed., vi, 225.
(1793)