To: Political Junkie Too
” He also feared the states forming their own standing armies. See Federalist #8.”
He opposed professional standing armies in general. As did many of the Founders.
93 posted on
06/21/2022 1:35:08 PM PDT by
ought-six
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To: ought-six
He was also afraid that the smaller states would form their own armies to put them on "equality" with the larger states, and that that would trigger an arms race between the states as they would all form their own armies. He said that those armies were the typical instruments of eventual despotism.
-PJ
98 posted on
06/21/2022 2:10:34 PM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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