To: central_va
Listen to me. You're full of crackers: we will always need a well-equipped and competent army to defend this country. Any other idea is just silliness.
Get some sleep.
66 posted on
12/03/2018 5:22:58 PM PST by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Chainmail
In June of 1787, James Madison addressed the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on the dangers of a permanent army. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty, he argued. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. That Madison, one of the most vocal proponents of a strong centralized governmentan author of the Federalist papers and the architect of the Constitutioncould evince such strongly negative feelings against a standing army highlights the substantial differences in thinking about national security in America between the 18th century and the 21st.Read more at American Resistance to a Standing Army
67 posted on
12/04/2018 4:50:05 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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