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jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 4:37 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 4:37 am

using the military for enforcement. 

--------------------Government‟s capacity for waging war. The Founders enacted measures to prevent the growth of permanent armies and focused their efforts on limiting the power of the one branch of government that they feared would be most warlike—the Executive.-----------------

-------------------------------Why did the Founding Fathers place the military under civilian control?
In the context of a new, experimental, and democratic Republic, the Founding Fathers believed that subordination of the military to the authority of civil masters was critically important to prevent the emergence of a new form of tyranny or dictatorship.Jun 11, 2020--------------------------------------