Excerpt from A Collection of the Parliamentary Debates in England, Vol. 15: From the Year 1668 to the Present Time

That it might be that the number of eee&ive, men to be' provided, (as befor'e mentioned.) And as this number was thought by feveral gentlemen to be much greater than was neceltary, and more than ought' to be kept up in time of peace, therefore the motion was oppofed, and thereupon' a long debate en fued, in which the arguments for the motion were in fubf'tance as followeth, viz. Sir, it has always been allowed, and, I be lieve, it will not now be controverted, that no government can befupported without fome fort of military force. In every fociety it is zib lufel'y necefiary to have a certain number of men piope'rl'y 'armed and diféiplined, for protecting the fociety'againft foreign invafions, as we preventing the weak from being oppre¿'e tring the laws of the focrety offenders of every rank and times this military force/con.

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