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NOTE Section XV

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section 15 on general principles of law and reason the oaths of soldiers that

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they will serve a given number of years that they will obey the orders of their

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superior officers that they will bear true allegiance to the government and so

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forth are of no obligation independently of the criminality of an oath that for a

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given number of years he will kill all whom he may be commanded to kill without

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Without exercising his own judgment or conscience as to the justice or necessity of such killing,

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there is this further reason why a soldier's oath is of no obligation, that is, that like

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all other oaths that have now been mentioned, it is given to nobody, there being in no legitimate

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sense any such corporation or nation as the United States, nor consequently in any legitimate

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Since any such government as the government of the United States, a soldier's oath given

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to or contract made with such a nation or government, is necessarily an oath given to

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or a contract made with nobody.

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Consequently, such oath or contract can be of no obligation.