Article IX.
Declaration of Rights

Section XXII. Of the military

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Standing army; military subordinate to civil power

No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept up without the consent of the Legislature, and the military shall in all cases and at all times be in strict subordination to the civil power.

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Of the military

No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept up without the consent of the legislature; and the military shall, in all cases, and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power.

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XIII.

That the People have a right to bear Arms for the defence of themselves and the State: And as standing Armies in the time of Peace are dangerous to Liberty, they ought not to be kept up: And that the Military should be kept under strict subordination to, and Governed by the Civil Power.

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