For the sake of public freedom, they must, in the midst of freedom, be placed under a despotic rule.

They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringent code of procedure, than are administered by the ordinary tribunals.

Some acts which in the citizen are innocent must in the soldier be crimes.

Some acts which in the citizen are punished with fine or imprisonment must in the soldier be punished with death.

The machinery by which courts of law ascertain the guilt or innocence of an accused citizen is too slow and too intricate to be applied to an accused soldier.