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1827. July 18.
Constitutional Code.Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles.
1.
Art 1. Ends of the Defensive
force Establishment.
(composite subdepartment portion of the
Executive Department.)
I. Positive ends. 1. Main or
primary security against
foreign hostility.
2. Collateral or secondary
subserviency to other parts
branches of the public service.
II. Negative.
1. Minimizing danger to
superordinate from this
subordinate authority.
2. Minimizing expense.
2.
Art 2. Subject-matters, on
the aptitude of which the
do. aptitude of this establishment
depends are
1. The persons.
2. The things.
Not to this head belongs
what regards things: but
to Ch. IX. §. 7. Statistic function,
(they belonging to the real
stock) and National
Defence Code, as per §. 1.
Branches — Art 2. and infra-Art.
3.
Art 3. As To persons belonging
to the Personal Stock,
so far as depends on them
the aptitude of a Defensive
Force Establishment will
depend on their appropriate
aptitude respectively.
4.
Art 4. As to these ends,
all others are subordinate:
i. e. means.
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Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles.
5.
Art 5. Correspondent to
ends are
1. Rules.
2. Principles.
3. Properties.
6.
Art 6. A rule — what — a
proposition, indicative of a
course of action, by
pursuit of which the attainment
of the correspondent appropriate
end will be probabilized.
7.
Art 7. A rule is an
entire proposition.
8.
Art 8. A principle, what
it's use. The quantity of
matter in in this denomination it being much
less than that the least
quantity in a principle,
rule, hence, in so far as it
conveys the same import,
it gives convenience to
discourse. Being no more
than a term, one or two
words suffice for giving
expression to it. (a.)
7 (a.)
Note. Though in the
imperative mood a rule
is expressible by even a
single word, the imperative
is but an abridged
form of a proposition that which, when
expressed at length,
requires the indicative mood,
for the expression of it.
My will is, that you do
so and so.
8.
Art 8. Properties. For
each rule and principle
may be seen and said to have place
on the part of the system,
a property by the possession
of which the attainment
of the end will be
probabilized.
Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles.
9.
Art 9. The stipendiary is
the branch the prospectus
of which requires to
be first brought to view.
Reasons.
1. This is the only efficient
branch.
2. The other, only a natural source,
and eventual check, to
this.
10.
Art 10. follow Principles and
properties belonging to the
two branches confronted
I. Stipendiary Branch.
1. External security maximizing.
2. Internal security maximizing.
3. Aptitude maximizing.
4. Number minimizing.
5. Contentment maximizing.
6. Inequality minimizing.
7. Time occupying.
8 7. Employment extending
or say diversifying.
8. Time occupying.
8 9. Expense minimizing.
10. Preponderant — detriment avoiding
II. Radical Branch.
1. External security maximizing.
2. Internal security maximizing.
3. Aptitude maximizing.
4. Number maximizing.
5. Contentment maximizing.
6. Inequality minimizing.
7. Employment extending
(Inapplicable)
8. Time occupying (inapplicable.)
9. Expense minimizing
10. Preponderant detriment avoiding.
11.
Art 11. These are supposed
to be all the properties
desirable in on the part this
of this establishment.
case .
But, such is the
imperfection of language,
several of them may
require ulterior explanation.
Ch. X. Defensive Force.
§. 2. Leading Principles.
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