The Political State of the British Empire... by John Adolphus

Author:John Adolphus [Adolphus, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781276906739
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2012-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

"tha* "that persons who compofe the army, forall ofsences !n their mil!f* tary capacity, should be subject to a trial by their officers. "This has induced the absolute neceffity of a muti,ny act ac"companying the army, It has happened indeed, at different "periods of the government, that there has been a strong op"position to the estahlistiment of the army; but the army "being established and voted, that led to the establishment of "a mutiny act. It is one object of that act to provide for the "army; but there is a much greater caufe for the existence "of a mutiny act, and that is, the preservation of the peace "and fasety of the kingdom; for there is nothing so dangerous "to the civil establishment of a state, as a licentious and un"disciplined army. The object of the mutiny act, therefore, "is, to create a court invested with authority to try thofe who ** are a part of the army, in all their different descriptions of ** officers and soldiers; and the object of the trial is limited. "to breaches of military duty. Even, bv that extensive power "granted by the legiflature to his majesty, to make articles

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