Military Training, Compulsory Or Volunteer: A Series of Addresses and Papers Presented at the Semi-annual Meeting of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, May 18, 1916William Lynn Ransom |
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Page 437 - And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Page 659 - ... to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...
Page 505 - Hence likewise they will avoid the neces,sity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Page 534 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 662 - But it is an inquiry which can not be too solemnly pursued, whether the act "more effectually to provide for the national defense by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States...
Page 676 - We are all of opinion that the authority to decide whether the exigency has arisen belongs exclusively to the president, and that his decision is conclusive upon all other persons.
Page 459 - While we speak of the preparation of the nation to make sure of her security and her effective power we must not fall into the patent error of supposing that her real strength comes from armaments and mere safeguards of written law. It comes, of course, from her people, their energy, their success in their undertakings, their free opportunity to use the natural resources of our great home land and of the lands outside our continental borders which look to us for protection, for encouragement, and...
Page 669 - In a land of liberty it is extremely dangerous to make a distinct order of the profession of arms.
Page 674 - The States neglect their militia now, and the more they are consolidated into one nation, the less each will rely on its own interior provisions for its safety, and the less prepare its militia for that purpose ; in like manner as the militia of a State would have been still more neglected than it has been, if each county had been independently charged with the care of its militia. The discipline of the militia is evidently a national concern, and ought to be provided for in the national Constitution.
Page 679 - But as state militia, the power of the state governments to legislate on the same subjects having existed prior to the formation of the constitution, and not having been prohibited by that instrument, it remains with the states, subordinate, nevertheless, to the paramount law of the general government, operating upon the same subject.