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vion; it ought to be cherished, and rendered permanently beneficial to the community.

   The vigor and importance of the proposed plan, will entirely depend on the laws relative thereto, which may be enacted by the respective states.  Unless the laws shall be equal to the object, and rigidly enforced, no energetic national militia can be established.
   Every state possesses, not only the right of personal service from its members, but the right to regulate the service on principles of equality for the general defence.  All being bound, none can complain of justice, on being obliged to perform his equal proportion.  Therefore it ought to be a permanent rule, that those who in youth decline or refuse to subject themselves to the course military education, established by the laws, should be considered as unworthy of public trust, of public honors, and be excluded therefrom accordingly.
   If the majesty of the laws should be preserved inviolate in this respect, the operations of the proposed plan would foster a glorious public spirit; infuse the principles of energy, and stability into the body politic; and give a high degree of political splendor, to the national character.

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