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" Divers gentlemen and others being joined in a military company, desired to be made a corporation, but the council considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the templars in Europe, how dangerous it might be to erect a standing... "
Rise of the United Empire Loyalists: A Sketch of American History - Page 50
by Frederic Gregory Forsyth - 1906 - 120 pages
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, Volume 11

Questions and answers - 1893 - 390 pages
...company desired to be made a corporation, but the council, considering from the example of the Pratoriaen Band among the Romans, and the Templars in Europe, how dangerous it might be to exact a standing authority of military men, which might easily in time overtop the civil power thought...
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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies ...

Herbert Levi Osgood - Great Britain - 1904 - 618 pages
...reflected on the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans and the Templars in Europe. They thought " how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power," and resolved to "stop it betimes."4 The anxiety was 1 Mass. Col. Recs. II. 42. * Johnson, Wonder-working...
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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies ...

Herbert Levi Osgood - Great Britain - 1904 - 618 pages
...reflected on the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans and the Templars in Europe. They thought "how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power," and resolved to "stop it betimes."4 The anxiety was 1 Mass. Col. Recs. II. 42. 2 Johnson, Wonder-working...
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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies ...

Herbert Levi Osgood - United States - 1904 - 622 pages
...reflected on the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans and the Templars in Europe. They thought " how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority of military mpn. wViin.Vi miorht-. pasilv in timp nvprt/hrnw thp nivil nnwpr." unnecessary, for the industrial...
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Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649, Volume 1

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1908 - 370 pages
...desired to be made a corporation, etc. But the council, considering (from the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans, and the Templars in Europe)...might easily, in time, overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes. Yet they were allowed to be a company, but subordinate to all authority.1...
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The Call of the Republic: A National Army and Universal Military Service

Jennings Cropper Wise - Draft - 1917 - 164 pages
...the example of the Pretorian Band among the Romans and recalled the Templars of Europe. They thought "how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power," and resolved to "stop it betimes." * The anxiety of the Colonists was ill-founded, * Winthrop, I.,...
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Constabulary: The Rise of Police Institutions in Britain, the Commonwealth ...

Hereward Senior - Political Science - 1997 - 194 pages
...on the grounds that they considered "from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans, and Templars in Europe, how dangerous it might be to erect...which might easily in time overthrow the Civil Power." The Revolution further encouraged this attitude, and in 1 784 the Continental Congress stated that...
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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in ...

Louise A. Breen - Religion - 2001 - 304 pages
...fashionable "artillery gardens" of London and other English cities. But the Court, said Winthrop, recognizing "how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...might easily, in time, overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes." For reasons that Winthrop did not explain, these doubts were overcome...
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John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father

Francis J. Bremer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 516 pages
...surprising that "the Council, considering (from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans, the Templars in Europe) how dangerous it might be...might easily, in time, overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes." Though allowed to organize without corporate protections, some of...
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John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father

Francis J. Bremer - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 520 pages
...surprising that "the Council, considering (from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans, the Templars in Europe) how dangerous it might be...might easily, in time, overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes." Though allowed to organize without corporate protections, some of...
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