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Often appears with: standing armies · shift toward monarchy · security vs liberty tradeoff · rights and liberties · military discipline and training · loss of civil rights · forms of government
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
Hamilton argues that frequent wars and constant threats would drive states to standing armies and strengthen executives, edging republics toward monarchy, with the risk that people trade freedom for safety.
to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. The institutions chiefly alluded to are STANDING ARMIES and the correspondent appendages of military establishments. Standing armies, it is said, are not provided against in the new Constitution; and it is therefore inferred that they may exist under it…