SECTION 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the

people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a

free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided,

as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be

under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

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