Charles Sumner: “Clearly it is according to the genius of republican institutions that…”

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Clearly it is according to the genius of republican institutions that the military should be subordinate to the civil.

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Sumner articulates the principle that military forces should remain subordinate to civil governance in a republic.

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Charles Sumner: “Clearly it is according to the genius of republican institutions that the military should be subordinate to the civil.”