- A pledge is unconditional...not like a contract with contingencies... —
Even contracts that lack contingecies and escape clauses can be broke, but there has to be a good reason. As I noted above, all of the candidates knew one of them would be the nominee, so they all knoew they were siging on to endorse one of the people on stage. There is no contingency, no unforseeable event, no extenuating circumstance.
They lied, pure and simple, when they pledged. If they wanted a contingency, they could have added one. “I pledge to support any nominee except Trump.” Easy enough to express, that was their position, but they held it back.
From my understanding**, a contract is contingency based...I will do this for you if you do that for me...
A pledge is not based on what the other person does...It is what the person giving the pledge has committed to doing regardless of other person’s conduct...
**LOL I have a nasty cold so my understanding may be totally off!
Yes, that's the law of contacts, basically. My point was that even those agreements can be broken, legally, outside the four corners of the agreement, but only for a good reason. What constitutes good enough reason varies depending on the subject matter and the players, but there is nearly always an unwritten way out.
The same is true, generically, for a pledge. The distinction doesn;t turn on calling the deal a "pledge" or a "contract."
My point is that there is no good reason in this case. There is no unforseeable event. Trump winning the nomination was foreseeable. ut Cruz and Kasich lied when they said they would support any of the candidates.
I pledged allegiance to the flag, but give me a good enough reason, and I'll renege on that.