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4 July 1810 2.B
Fallacies
1o or ult
Ch. Posterity
§.2. Exposure
1 10
An engagement in to which the sovereign power in
the state is a party, is the occasion sort of incident by which the
most rational plausible plea for immutability is presented.
Engagements are serious things ties: and unless, or unless or
unless and so forth — in a word, according to the construction that is here put upon
upon them of course
by all utterers of
fallacies in general, especially
of the first class now in
question, unless it
be when it is more convenient
and agreeable to break
them than to keep
them, ought always
to be kept.
In To a transaction of this sort the other contracting
party is either a portion of the community in question,
some foreign community as represented by its sovereign
by the sovereign power in it ruling power in it, continuing after the engagement
in a state of independence on the sovereign
power in of the state in question as before, or a sovereign body
or a part of it uniting itself entering into an engagement with the sovereign power of the state
in question and for the purpose of becoming one with it: as in the
case of the two British Unions: the first between England
and Scotland forming the an mixt Monarchy of Great Britain,
the other with between Great Britain and Ireland forming
the awkwardly denominated mixt Monarchy of
called that of Great Britain and Ireland: the monarchical branch
remaining unchanged, the two other branches incorporated
each with its correspondent one.
In the case of the contract between the state in
question and a foreign state, the dogma of immutability
has
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