Military Governance Quotes
The irony is that it is just for the lack of this fundamental principle that Napoleon eventually became the Government and the Military in France.
The governors of the states were in command of their militias in early America. They could appoint all the ranks up to Colonel, but only the Congress could appoint generals.
In 1776 General Charles Lee imposed a loyalty test on inhabitants of New York in the name of the new government. Four distinguished public men wrote this letter.
Civilian control of the Military did not just pop in to the Constitution 11 years later. This and many other fundamental ideas had come from the State Constitutions and other documents.
Sherman was one of the few military leaders who tended to always get good press coverage and who did not develop good relations with the newsmen. He tended to excoriate them although at a personal level he made a disctinction between the worst and the best.
Marquis de Seignelay. This shows that the concept of ethnic cleansing has been around for some time. The only thing that prevented the French from implementing the plan was that they couldn’t defeat the Iroquois. There is a certain irony here in that the Iroquois were very much allied with the British even during the American Revolution. After that war, the Iroquois were run out of their traditional lands, not by the French but by the Americans. And where did they go and resettle? Up to then British Canada, the very area where the French so feared them.
Many of the fundamental principles of government that were in the United States Constitution, were already in the Constitutions of different states. Vermont had a substantial number of them. When we speak of the Constitution as a “revolutionary document” it was to the rest of the world but not to many Americans who had these concepts in their state constitutions and had been living with them for some time.
