JB/042/861/001

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Months instead of 12 or 14 days. Instead of compiling
everybody to appear under a fixed penalty, which the poor
cannot pay, and the rich will not (or do not in the United States)
there should be a regular and proportionate tax levied
on all property (along with other taxes) for the very purpose
of paying the militia. Instead of keeping the whole body
of men who are capable of bearing arms in a country
to the call of the publick. before they are fitted or prepared
for service, it would be better to keep a tenth part or
a twentieth part of their number in a state of efficiency
taking care not to keep them so, for such a length of time
as to give them a for the duties of a citizen. Every
year a fourth part, for example, might withdraw, and their
place might be supplied by a new draft. In this way, after
a few years the whole power of a country might be prepared
to take the field with an effect altogether superior 1. What could
be hoped for if they from the present militia systems of the world.

Identifier: | JB/042/861/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 42.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	861	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f2
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"copied and copy corrected" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	13784
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