Pensions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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They have not as yet been brought before the Supreme Court. Incidentally United States judges have decided that the power to grant pensions is a part of the power given to the United States by the Constitution to raise armies.

If so, the power should certainly be limited to the armies of its own raising and should not be extended to volunteer forces, raised by the several states and mustered into the ser vice of the United States for limited periods. The laws governing the compensation of retired army and navy officers and privates, cover all this ground completely and satisfactorily. To accord a pen sion is an act of sovereign grace; not of right, but of bounty. Such is the radical idea of a pen sion ever since pensions existed. A pension is an act of kindness and charity. A discharged soldier has no more natural right to a pension than has a discharged postmaster or revenue collector.

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