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  1. In Britain, an act of Parliament, passed 1689
  2. and re-enacted annually since then (since
  3. 1882 as part of the Army Acts), for the
  4. establishment and payment of a standing army.
  5. The act is intended to prevent an army from
  6. existing in peacetime without Parliament's
  7. consent.
  8.