Both Uses of

bind

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Annexation

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.†
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Its necessity for this very purpose of binding and holding together in its iron clasp our fast-settling Pacific region with that of the Mississippi valley--the natural facility of the route--the ease with which any amount of labor for the construction can be drawn in from the overcrowded populations of Europe, to be paid in die lands made valuable by the progress of the work itself--and its immense utility to the commerce of the world with the whole eastern Asia, alone almost…†

Definition:

(binding as in: the binding is loose)
something that holds things together or ties something