Note 24 — PART I. REPORTS AND OPINIONS WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE. (continued 2)

[At a later period, upon reviewing this opinion, the following note was appended by Mr. Jefferson.—Ed.—viz.] "Unless with the consent or default of the other contracting party. It may well be doubted, too, and perhaps denied, that the treaty power can control a law. The question here proposed was then of the first impression. Subsequent investigations have proved that the contrary position is the more general truth."