The Science of Government As Exhibited in the Institutions of the United States of America
The Science of Government As Exhibited in the Institutions of the United States of America
Charles B Charles Bishop Goodrich
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Another feature is found in the respect paid to the militia, by authorizing the several states to appoint its own officers, so that the citizen, when called into the combats of his country, is, to some extent, under the protection and kindness of his neighbor and fellow-citizen, the business of whose life is not war but peace. These checks and balances demonstrate our policy, our system ; they show that the object of war in this country is not the maintenance of a balance of power ; is not to e...nlarge or aggrandize our empire, or to ♦ Constitution of the United States, art. i. sec. 8. 76 THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT. exhibit the star-spangled banner upon the battlements of a. foreign citadel. These checks and balances exhibit a far more noble purpose. They exhibit a purpose to maintain and pre- serve our rights as a nation^ the perpetuation of our in- stitutions, of liberty regulated by law. The purpose is self-defence, a protection from the encroachments, from the intervention of others, upon and with our domestic aflFairs.
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