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Federalist No. 24 challenged the refrain that the constitution was flawed because it did not prohibit a standing army during peacetime. [3] During the 18th century, standing armies in peacetime were unpopular among proponents of civic republicanism , and they were often seen as a challenge to liberty, leading to a preference for militias to ...
Federalist No. 25 continued the argument of Federalist No. 24 in favor of a standing army. [3] This had been an issue when forming the national government under the Articles of Confederation , being a point of contention during the 1783 committee of which Hamilton was a member.
Federalist No. 26 continued the discussion of a standing army during peacetime that Hamilton began in No. 24 and No. 25 of the Federalist Papers. While No. 24 argued for the benefits of such an army and No. 25 argued that a federal standing army is superior to state armies, No. 26 argued against restricting the federal government's power to ...
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. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men.
A standing army is a permanent, often professional, army.It is composed of full-time soldiers who may be either career soldiers or conscripts.It differs from army reserves, who are enrolled for the long term, but activated only during wars or natural disasters, and temporary armies, which are raised from the civilian population only during a war or threat of war, and disbanded once the war or ...
The filibuster isn’t in the Constitution, but since the first session of the Senate, in 1789, it’s been possible for the minority to stand in the way of the majority and force compromises in ...
Federalist No. 8, titled "Consequences of Hostilities Between the States", is a political essay by Alexander Hamilton and the eighth of The Federalist Papers.It was first published in the New-York Packet on November 20, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published.
The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men.