Freedom In Service / Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government

tory they try to show that compulsory military duty is alien from the English Constitution, and that the voluntary system is the

ce is contrary to the spirit of liberty, that freedom is an essential characterist

eas "the Territorial Army dates from 1908, the Volunteers from 1859, the Regular Army itself only from 1645, for a millennium before the oldest of them the ancient defence of England was the Nation in Arms."