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... head too large for the body . A standing military force , with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty . The means of defense agst . foreign danger , have been always the instruments of tyranny at home . Among ...
... head too large for the body . A standing military force , with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty . The means of defense agst . foreign danger , have been always the instruments of tyranny at home . Among ...
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... head of the most arbitrary government in the civilized world , the Czar of the Rus- sias , is inviting the nations of the world to a decrease in their arms , while this , the freest land , is proposing the increase in its . Yet such ...
... head of the most arbitrary government in the civilized world , the Czar of the Rus- sias , is inviting the nations of the world to a decrease in their arms , while this , the freest land , is proposing the increase in its . Yet such ...
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... head level ; it had never been done.12 12 Understanding better than most of his fellow citizens the virtual impossibility of waging modern war without the repressive fea- tures of the militarist state , President Wilson was at first ...
... head level ; it had never been done.12 12 Understanding better than most of his fellow citizens the virtual impossibility of waging modern war without the repressive fea- tures of the militarist state , President Wilson was at first ...
Contents
The AngloAmerican Heritage | 3 |
The Founding Fathers Reaffirm Civil Supremacy | 18 |
The Defeat of the Federalist Military Plans | 32 |
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