University of Virginia Library

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)