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5440. MONOPOLY, Military.—

Nor
should we wonder at the pressure [for a fixed
constitution in 1788-9], when we consider the
monstrous abuses of power under which
* * * the [French] people were ground
to powder, when we pass in review the
* * * monopoly of military honors by the
noblesse * * *.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)