Who are the Militia?

[jmg257]

68. No. The militias are NOT formed in times of need. THEY ARE NECESSARY!

They HAD TO EXIST. The state militias had to BE - They were given very specific, very vital roles to fill in the constitution.

We could raise an Army, and support a Navy, but the militias were necessary.

Only THEY were to be called forth - for almost all the reasons the constitution was created in the 1st place:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States"

The Militia Acts makes this quite clear - the people HAD to serve...well-regulated militias HAD to exist. There HAD to be ways to call them forth, when and why.


It is this recreation of these "well-regulated militias" into completely new entity w/the dick act - federal reserves, federally armed, volunteers (along with the HUGE armies), that make the purpose of the 2nd obsolete. It was a usurption of powers, but one done apparently with the approval of we, the people. Our notions of the best security, and our roles in it, had changed.