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1460. COMPACTS, Self-preservation and.— |
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1460. COMPACTS, Self-preservation and.—
Obligation is [to observe compacts]
not suspended till the danger [of self-preservation]
is become real, and the moment of it
so imminent, that we can no longer avoid decision
without forever losing the opportunity
to do it.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 615.
Ford ed., vi, 222.
(1793)
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