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Religion & liberties of his country, produced, at the revolution, a declaration, in the bill of rights, that an army maintained by the King in time of peace without the consent of parliamt was illegal and unconstitutional.
When the parliament a few years after admitted a standing army and a military Code they probably supposed that the contrivance of them for one year, would remove all cause for their being continued the next. But it being once admitted that the [deead?] of being invited by neighbouring powers was a sufficient reason for a standing army, it soon followed, since that reason must for ever exist, that a
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