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it would seem to me that the decision to create a standing army--and within that the "modernization" of war, which coincides with the adoption of the doctrine of total war as a way of thinking about what the military does when it wheels into action----and the transition into a modern legal system that substitutes the state for individuals as victims of crime (which entailed a transfer of police functions) obviated the framers' intent in these areas a priori---the rules changed significantly with these transitions.
so for that matter did the nature of revolutionary political action.
but this is left political stuff---after marx became a dominant touchstone for thinking revolutionary politics, the entire understanding of what revolution is split away from the older understanding of it as an attempt to restore some previous state of affairs. because it's left tradition thinking, i'm not sure how much to say about it here...but anyway, there we are.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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