All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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