Herbert Hoover: “To preserve internal order and freedom from encroachment is the first purpose of government.”

The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives of the United States

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'

That the validity of a passport . . . shall be limited to a period of two years.

Enlisted men of the Marine Corps having established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they are required to use, under such regulations and conditions as are now, or may hereafter be, prescribed by the…