5513. MORAL LAW, Nations and.—
The moral duties which exist between individual
and individual in a state of nature, accompany
them into a state of society, and the aggregate
of the duties of all the individuals
composing the society constitutes the duties of
that society towards any other; so that between
society and society the same moral duties exist
as did between the individuals composing them
while in an unassociated state, their Maker not
having released them from those duties on
their forming themselves into a nation.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 613.
Ford ed., vi, 220.
(1793)
