 A compact is an agreement or binding obligation. It may by its terms have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence than moral guilt; if it have a sanction, then the breach...  Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Page 13by New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1833Full view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1832 - 844 pages
...ligation. It may, by its terms have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains DO sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence than moral guilt : if it hare a sanction, then the breach incurs the designated or implied penalty. A league between independent... | |
 | Philo Ashley Goodwin - Presidents - 1833 - 484 pages
...obligation. It may by its terms have a sai.ction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...league between independent nations, generally, has no other sanction than a moral one ; or if it should contain a penalty, as there is no common superior,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...have a sanction or it may not : if it contain no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequences than moral guilt : if it have a sanction, then the...nations generally has no sanction other than a moral one : a government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, express or implied, and in our case it is both... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - United States - 1834 - 798 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...generally, has -no sanction other than a moral one ; or,'ff it should contain a penalty, as there is no common superior, it cannot be enforced. A Government,... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, expressed or implied ; and, in our case, it is both necessarily implied and expressly given. An attempt... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - United States - 1835 - 292 pages
...It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. — If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, expressed or implied; and, in our case, it is both necessarily implied and expressly given. An attempt... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, expressed or implied ; and, in our case, it is both necessarily implied and expressly given. An attempt... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, expressed or implied ; and, in our case, it is both necessarily implied and expressly given. An attempt... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 472 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...or, if it should contain a penalty, as there is no commcu superior, it cannot be enforced. A government, on «35 the contrary, always has a sanction,... | |
 | History, Modern - 1835 - 804 pages
...obligation. It may, by its terms, have a sanction or penalty for its breach, or it may not. If it contains no sanction, it may be broken with no other consequence...league between independent nations, generally, has DO sanction other than a moral one ; or, if it should contain a penalty, as there is no common superior,... | |
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