This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that c…

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This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist. ✨ John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton (1860). History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries, p.140
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