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615. AUTHORITY, Civil and Military.—[continued].

He [George III.], has
endeavored to pervert the exercises of the
Kingly office in Virginia into a detestable and
insupportable tyranny, * * * by [affecting] to
render the military independent of and superior
to the civil power.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 19.
(June. 1776)