the imperial parliament representatives were most often people who neither lived nor worked in the boroughs listed. they were most often inherited or purchased. the worst were known as rotten boroughs.

Not from accident of birth but from attaining full citizenship involving a voluntary contribution NOT cash.but time in some sort of service. Property as a measure only works when their is full property ownership which does not apply in the USA. think not...try not paying your rent t the government - property tax. pc definitions screw you over every time.

This obtained in the regular and reserve ranks of the Army by requiring one of the following. For the new soldiers a switch to 12 weeks Basic of which the last four are 11B+ training or for some Heavy weapons or indirect fire weapons. They are awarded a Permanent MOS of 11B C or H. and sent on to their specialized training for some even more infantry oriented skills the rest clerks or what have you.

For those in the service a division of those too far along the career path and to close to retirement to who are not replaced just retired at the earliest opportunity. Regardless of rank 20 years and phased out. The remainder under go two to four weeks of infantry training including APRT (physical testing) and weapons qualification ANNUALLY rotating and the requirement is they pass APRT, weapons qualification etc. annually and weight control or be passed over for promotions, all schools, and not allowed to re-enlist or if commissioned are just released. What you end up with is a reverse of the seven to the rear 1 forward ratio of combat ready troops. What would they do?:

One is provide their own unit's security when in the field which affects some unit's nearer the 'front lines' A ban on the use of combat units to provide security or ash and trash details goes into effect.

Secondly a ready pool of trained and deployable replacements. Eachi non combat unit would be required to maintain a roster of the stay and go members. Infantry needs bodies the go members go... the stay members continue the mission. mission essential numbers would of course vary but half the administrative or cooks and drivers and clerks staff would be about right. Too include Pentagon units.If someone is in a school or on leave etc. they are replaced with another name. One day a clerk in the Pentagon next day a member of 1st squad 2nd platoon Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st infantry Regiment. En route. with A and B bag. This means immediate deployables have shot records, gas mask optical inserts, wills, already done all the time.

4th Division or 5th Corps or whatever needs security troops they provide there own from the same lists.

etc.

Nothing the Corps hasn't been doing successfully for two centuries.

given ten years or so the phase out /in is complete. How do you tell those deployable. The ones that are wear Berets the one's that aren't where overseas caps or baseball caps. The want to play 'elite' they get to do it for real.

A cut from the past higher numbers of 30% total strength would then have been acceptable, Divisions etc. manned and ready. And computer systems brought in to take up the slack when deployables went forward.

Annual training includes at least one week long field exercise.

Same for reserves including guard units.

Bingo 7 to 1 ratio tooth to tail available and 3 to one ratio combat units to rear echelon units.

Civilian employees counted as part of the rear echelon numbers.

Don't like it....hit the bricks. Part of being a volunteer force

That was a fast exercise in leadership decision making. Before refinements Any so called leader that couldn't have reached that or a simiilar plan in one minute or less should be part of the automatic 30% cuts.

Air Force and Navy same thing with Naval Infantry and Air Infantry personnel trained for base and port and shipboard protection and security. Easily done using Marines or US Army Special Forces intitially then Armiy or Marine drill instructors to bring them up to speed.

One more thing. USMC made a separate department. Under the above paragraph they wouldn't be needed as babysitters for the Navy anymore. As the Presidents own they would retain the Embassy and White House and Camp David function IF needed. No sense carrying a good thing too far...

The reason? To divert any reading of the book. Pop cultural beliefs in the USA state if you have seen the movies you have lived the book.

I suspect the attack was initiated by the monarchies to stop the spread of a threat to their own existence AND to keep their large bodies of m'litary employed.

If it was passed between classes it was not impossible

But since there is no such thing as true land ownership voluntrily serving where ever assigned is a mighty fine way to separate the unqualified to send others to war from the qualified.

The book was on three levels. High School , University , and politically/morally astute. The movie(s) were intended to prevent the reading of what was considered major anti left wing thinking but true to Hollywood's regard of the part of the population that matters it was a series of cheap productions with a cheap cast and cheaper writers and crew the worst of which portrayed battle tactics as a cheaply choreagraphed off broadway insult.