Opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in Regard to Liability to Military Service of the Principals of Substitutes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in Regard to Liability to Military Service of the Principals of Substitutes The power of coercing the citizen to render military service for such time and under such circumstances as the goyernment may think fit, is in deed a transcendent power, but so far from being inconsistent with liberty, it is essential to its preservation. A nation cannot foresee the extent of the dangers to which it may be exposed. It must, therefor, grant to its government a power equal to every possible emergency: and this can only be done by giving to it the control of its Whole military strength. The danger that the power may be abused, cannot render it preper to withhold it, for it is necessary to the national life. The hazard of abuse should be guarded against by so framing the government as to render it unlikely that it will use the power Oppressively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.