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1823. July 5
Constitut. Code.III Rationale
Ch. 5. Constitutive
§. 1. [Constitutive in the people, why]

A foreign Monarch could not plunder or oppress
him more than the native one does.

3. Security, as against foreign adversaries. Abstraction made
of the means, here as between Monarch and subjects, the unity
of interest is appears entire. But the Monarchs peoples interest requires to when the means come to be considered
one sort of security in respect to the means, the repugnancy is
no less so. The From hostile contest with foreign states, the people
have nothing to gain, everything to lose, nothing to gain. No
otherwise than at their expence can any war, offensive or defensive
be carried on, or so much as preparations made for it; suppose it successful
and even to such a degree as to produce accession to encrease of territory, it
is by the Monarch that the whole by the people no part of the
benefit is received. It is therefore What the peoples interest requires By the very preparation before a stroke is struck
the more danger evil is received sustained by the people than those they can
ever hope to receive good from any success that which the nature of things
admitts of. What the interest of the people requires is that every
man able to bear arms should actually bear arms and be
trained to the use of them. Were this done, no war would ever
be made upon them: for no people that could be expected to be
made by success against a people thus prepared for resistance
could be expected to be equal rise to in equality to the expence
necessitated by the very commencement of the enterprizes, the
expence of the defence would in this case be at its minimum: the
expence of aggression, at its maximum.

In this case While thus secure against class extortion and oppression at the
hands of all foreign adversaries they would be in the first place
be secure against misrule injury in both those shapes at the hands
of the Monarch.

But in the eyes of the Monarch any such security of course, is
and ever has been and ever will be everywhere altogether intolerable. By
nothing but by being kept in a state of defenceless defencelessness in a state as opposite
as a case be to that all such extreme feasibleness can they subjects be anywhere
kept in the state of subjects, Monarch in the state of Monarch.

That which in this particular respect his interest requires, is – that the
means of security against all foreign enemies should consist be composed exclusively
of a standing army. In this case it is no less fit for offensive war than
for defensive: for enabling him by plundering extortion and oppression committed against
his own subjects, to committ those same crimes at the expence of other rulers
and their subjects: but above all for enabling him to continue and go on⊞ ⊞ encreasing the amount of the extortion
and oppression he has
been accustomed to exercise
on his own subjects.

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Date_1	1823-07-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
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