Both Uses of
obligation
in
Annexation
- No obligation of duty towards Mexico tended in the least degree to restrain our right to effect the desired recovery of the fair province once our own--whatever motives of policy might have prompted a more deferential consideration of her feelings and her pride, as involved in the question.†
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- Their right to independence will be the natural right of self-government belonging to any community strong enough to maintain it--distinct in position, origin and character, and free from any mutual obligations of membership of a common political body, binding it to others by the duty of loyalty and compact of public faith.†
Definition:
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(obligation) a duty