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  • In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

    James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317
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