Failure to do this would have been to sanction Georgia's rescinding act, to encourage other States to take similar action, and to render insecure and litigious numberless titles acquired innocently and in good faith, and multitudes of contracts entered into in the belief that they were binding.
Beveridge warns that failing to uphold the law would lead to insecurity in contracts and property titles.
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It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
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