Mr. Cobbett, at that time, censured in strong terms the volunteer system, and ridiculed their pranks and squabbles with the most cutting irony; for he was at that time the mighty champion of a standing army.
He, however, then little thought what a monster he was nourishing, in the shape of a standing army.
The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms.
The latter resource of permanent corps in the pay of the government amounts to a standing army in time of peace; a small one, indeed, but not the less real for being small.
This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
It was protected by the existence of a standing army.
Ivan, by forming the national guard of streltsi or strelitz, laid the foundation of a standing army.
As Imperator, he had unlimited command over the military forces, and was at the head of a standing army of three hundred and forty thousand men.
He brought horses from Egypt, and organized a standing army, with its cavalry and chariots.
The king of France and the dauphin began the organization of a standing army, which greatly increased the military strength of the country (1439).
A standing armyof six hundred thousand and all the concomitants of royalty to maintain, and a large national debt upon which interest has to be paid--these require severe taxation, and even with this the revenues show a deficit.
The Khedive has been maintaining a standing army of sixty thousand men, but it has not been paid for more than two years.
They had indeed just declared a standing army to be illegal.
The most questionable proposition, though at the same time one of the most important, was that which asserts the illegality of a standing army in time of peace, unless with consent of parliament.
From this time, men of property hated the idea of a standing army.
Sailors had more status than soldiers because they had regular work as seamen in times of peace and they did not remind the people of the idea of a standing army, which they had hated especially since Cromwell.
As a check to their power in the field he established, for the first time in Afghanistan, a standing army.
Sidenote: The Rule of Dost Mahomed: a Standing Army.
The maintenance of a standing army in any colony in time of peace, without the consent of its legislature, was pronounced contrary to law.
To reconcile the latter to these impositions, it was stated that the revenue thus raised was to be appropriated to their protection and security; in other words, to the support of a standing army, intended to be quartered upon them.
Probably, too, it will oblige them to keep a standing army of considerable magnitude.
It will be worse, as their situation obliges them to keep up the dangerous machine of a standing army.
But his studies had led him to the conclusion that the colonies ought to be deprived of their self-government, and that a standing army ought to be maintained in America by means of taxes arbitrarily assessed upon the people by Parliament.
Besides this, the Lords of Trade were now considering a plan of their own for remodelling the governments of the colonies, establishing a standing army, enforcing the navigation acts, and levying taxes by authority of Parliament.
To obtain means with which to equip a standing army, the King forced the whole country to pay a tax known as "ship money," on the pretext that it was needed to free the English coast from the depredations of Algerine pirates.
There was then no standing army in England, but each county and large town had a body of militia, formed of citizens who were occasionally mustered for drill.
All Royalist families were heavily taxed to support Cromwell's standing army, all Catholic priests wre banished, and no books or papers could be published without permission of the government.
That the establishment of a standing army in this colony, in time of peace, is an invasion of national rights.
That a standing army is not known as a part of the British constitution.
They might, perhaps, refuse to contribute at all towards a standing army in time of peace, of which they would naturally soon become jealous.
That the keeping a standing army in these colonies, in times of peace, without the consent of the Legislature of the colony in which such army is kept, is against law.
Standing Armies opposed to standing Armies, can more easily dispense with it, than a standing Army opposed to a national insurrection, for in that case, the troops are more scattered, and the divisions left more to themselves.
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