Four Letters On the English Constitution I On Different Opinions Concerning Th
Four Letters On the English Constitution I On Different Opinions Concerning Th
George Dyer
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Idem de Athen. It, however, must be admitted that amonjsf the Lacedaemonians, though the citizens were soldiers, the soldiers did not return to the order of citizens. The Helotrc, their slaves, culti- vated the land. I have mentioned them merely to shew what a national militia might do. 104 I>EPECTS IN liberty, were soldiers, but not kept employed beyond a limited ag-e. In America, their sol- diers are citizens. When they began their strug- gle for independence, they had no standing army ; not ...one ship of war * ; yet we know what they became. In France it was a body of citi- zens who destroyed the Bastile, though de- fended by 30, 000 soldiers : and among ourselves, the City trained bands have given, in the great- est exigencies, the fullest proof of effect, even beyond any other armed force f. But an institution, however good, may have little or no value, if not under its proper disci- pline and legal regulations : a constitutional, national militia, is here spoken of: for as " our good may be evil-spoken of, " so may it be evil- acted on ; and.
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