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Often appears with: war powers · strategy and the aims of war · national defense · military readiness in peacetime · constitutional limits on force · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: argument (1) · temptation (1) · exhortation (1)
Madison argues that security against foreign danger requires confiding key powers—declaring war, raising armies, and equipping fleets—to the federal councils, and he rejects limiting force because offense sets the terms of defense.
bounds to the exertions of all other nations, then indeed might it prudently chain the discretion of its own government, and set bounds to the exertions for its own safety. How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of…