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1823. March 16
Constitut. Code 1. Enactive PartAppendix
Ch. Prescriptions for other Codes

Arrangements which required by the the Constitutional law of the
form of government to be the Constitutional law herein contained
calls for in the case at the hand of the Military Establishment

Art. The case of equal security requires that the military means of
self defence be spread all over the territory and all over
the population with as much equality as possible

That accordingly skill in the use of arms, and in
the means and instrument of it, the being instructed and exercised
in that use be with that same degree of equality be universally
diffused

For eventual defence against an external enemies it
will or may be necessary that at all times a body of men
more or less considerable be kept up in whose occupation is
conferred victorious military exercise occupies the whole
of their official time. Number equal the effective force of
this constantly trained and exercised class will therefore be of
necessity considerably greater than that of the less frequently exercised
class. In the hands of a mischievously ambitious
commander this regular force might be dangerous to the
independence of the rest of the community, if there the that
deficiency inferiority which has place in the article of skill were not decidedly
more than countervailed made up for by superiority in the article of
on the part of those the number of his less perfectly exercised body who compose
a large portion of the whole population and whose interests
are is now nearly identified with that of the whole.⊞ ⊞ Moreover the number
half train of the half imperfectly trained military
force will maintain themselves
alike those of the perfectly
trained force must be
maintained at the expence
of the rest of the community
economy joins with political
security in prescribing the
comforts of the perfectly
trained force within its narrowest
limits.

Hence can two correspondent objects or subordinate
ends in view which may be expressed by expressible in these words. Militia Imperfectly
trained force maximized: regular force minimized.

Identifier: | JB/037/378/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-03-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	378	Info in main headings field	constitut. code i enactive part
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11593
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