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Clayguy61

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Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:05 AM Dec 2015

Standing armies are danger to liberty [View all]



I created this for a government class. The founding fathers hated standing armies and quotes from them on their concerns hit home. Should we decrease the size of the military? How far? Can we go back to no standing army in peacetime?
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