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Show ('54) tom tovereignty, " or the winged people "Mule an indikriminute and righteous Vengeance. Alas I when will Kings learn wililonz, and mighty men have underl‘tanrliupr t" A further rcwiew of the progrcls of armies in our parent-Hate will be it inefull, tho' not a pleafunt employ. No particular reulon or occa- flon was 1‘0 much as liiggelted in the bill which puffed tl!(21)11]‘li;llllt‘llt in'i717, for keeping on foot :1 ltzmding army of 3o,coo men In ‘11'7218 of peace: (.21 number lince amazingly enerenled.) An act jnllly recorded in the Lord's journal to be a precedent for keeping the fame army at all timer, and which the proteit of that day foretold " MUST lNl‘LVITAllLY~/it/1'I'L'if the anti. " em‘ coIg/Zitzttimz of [/26 realm, and lubjed the/111)" jc'c‘h [a arbitrary flower. " f To borrow the pointed turu ofu modern orator --what was oncepmpbery, is now lij/Zm'y. bed by Infll‘ilili litre, "" litwing it. in thei‘pozx'er, "m "unwrily inclined not. onb; to ({i‘obey, out to inlnlt the evil hiagiililatl‘; l , ~lre mgptxhnce of whit hitli nienimials lutliciently floodlit/12S happened in England, as Well :is the of all age; and nations ll‘JVt' made it. zippireir, that "ii".‘l‘CLW er an 17/4153 ri' not. lli.tLlC to than: the lef'illt‘llC'J or" loldiers to the liuw of their country, theznilitir) hell), conlluntly tiiln'erted :rnd leatllmved up the civil pO\Vt‘,l'.---\\rllllle proi ilion of this kind can the fave- rzll Continental legillnturcs make, againlt llritillt troops ttationed in the Colonies? N;iy,if the virtue of one branch of gorernment attempted the iitlntary mealiire, wound the lirll: branch ever fir-e it's conl‘ent P A Governor mult -he will obey his matter: the. alternative is obvious. 'lhe armies quartered amongr us wry/[1w rev/wed, or they will in the end overturn and trample on all that we ought to hold valuable and lizcred. \Ve have authority, to nllirm, that the iugi‘im" The powers given by the mutiny ;i& which is now conitantly pailbd every year was repea-i tedly in former times " Oppoied and condemned " by Parliament RS repugnant to MAGNA-anR" TA, and inconfifi‘ent with the fundamental " rights and liberties of :1 free peeple. " I In this ltutute no provifion is made tor fecuring the obedience of the military to the civil power, on which the prefervutiou of our eonflitution depends. A great number of armed men gover- forces of Grezrt Britain conlii't of a gram-r number H W,‘ than are neceflirry for the guard of :l-m l.lll. \. peri'on and the defence of goverment. \ . .4". . v) ' i‘it? C? n; ‘ l .n fore dangerous to the conllitution otthe lxlli 5 L.'liii. \thf then do there. armaments, when c ablilhcd lure, threaten to our lzrws and liberties ? lift-ll; might the illuftr'ens members of the houle. oi, Peers, 121 i722, hold forth the. danger of *‘ (ff/J'L'i' "‘ ulterxnion of the lrzune ol" our conilitntioniron? "' a legal and limited monarchy to z). d'eipotich" . . I ned l "5' A law * Sir Robert Atkins (afterwards lid. Ch. Juflice of the Common Pleas in England) laid in Parliament, (anno I607.)---" Si): " Emperors in five years had their heads tumbled down by .1 " military government". Grey's debates in Parl, I vol. p. :3" 1* gee led's l‘rotcfl. 273. vol .3. 18eefume Book p, 279" lll‘fl‘llil‘l, unknown "1,, to our CL,Y'ilill"li""2, "Ilium/j 1,1, "M Hurts/ivy, deil‘ruclive of our and Ilevcr mentioned in any of our ltlituteh, ' but in 4:11" l) condemn "t i" ‘15" Lord's Prot. 283. ,. . . . . '7‘ Very not ible iirlt.inces of this have Keen teen in this l'r'ovmfil‘3-3 which will be recorded to due est-mil ififum." "i that: WW I booked the inlult. |