| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In a 1787 letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson expressed his concern that the proposed Constitution did not have a bill of rights, including a provision that provided ???protection against standing armies.??? As he took the oath of office for the first time in 1801, President Jefferson stated that ???the supremacy of the civil over the military authority I deem [one of] the essential principl
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