BeRe ED Exe Tr HhO.U Gre s)) ec: 
deputy lieutenants and juftices of the peace. The lord lieu- 
tenant alone is permitted to aét as colonel: he alone is per- 
mitted to unite the civil and military charaéters, becaufe he can 
delegate his powers fo that his abfence may be difpenfed with. 
In every other inftance, they are fo very carefully feparated, as 
never to appear acting together; except in the inftance of the 
difcharge of a man, in which they have a fhort correfpondence. 
The law plainly defigns, that no perfon inferior to the lord lieu- 
tenant, fhould aét in both capacities; much lefs to prefide at 
the meetings, and brow-beat the deputy lieutenants or juftices 
in the difcharge of their duty. “ A prince, therefore, never 
“ fhould give to military men a civil employment: on the 
“contrary, they ought to be checked by the civil magiftrate; 
« that the fame perfons may not have the confidence of the 
« people, and the power to abufe it *.” 
Tue civil power is the foul which is to animate the military 
machine, and put it in motion. ‘The civil power forms the 
men into regiments, or in {mall counties into companies; af- 
fembles men in convenient ftations, and even pofts to each 
company its proper officers. 
Tue time of training and exercifing the men, and the place 
of rendezvous, is alfo entirely in the power of the lieutenant 
_and two deputies; or, in the abfence of the lieutenant, in that of 
three deputy lieutenants: and the power of embodying the mi- 
litia is entrufted to the fame, even in time of actual invafion, or 
in cafe of rebellion. 
* Monte/quieu, 
M In 
i 
2G. UL c. 20.f, 28. 
Stat. L. vil. 618. 
Digcett 36. 
2G. III. c. 20. f. 95. 
Stat. L. xiii, 631. 
Digett 72. 
2G. IIT. c. 20. £99. 
Stat. L. viii. 632. 
Digett 74. 
z G. IIL. ¢. 20. 
f{. 116. 
16) G-Pen. fie 
Stat. L. xi. 634. 
xii. 431. 
Digett 98. 
