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Often appears with: standing armies · siege and fortification · shift from legislative authority · military discipline and training · fortifications and defense · forms of government
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1)
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.” Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison, The Federalist Papers · insight
He argues that frequent interstate wars would lead to standing armies, strengthen the executive toward monarchy, and shift the balance from legislative authority, whereas permanent European-style defense structures have kept invasions slower.
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…