Governors Should Veto National Guard Deployments More Often
Once upon a time, the ideals behind the idea of locally-controlled state militias offered an important check against centralized executive power.
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Refuting 12 Common Claims Against the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Here are some points to consider about the Second Amendment, and their essential historical context.
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Why We Need Independent Militias
As designed, the militias were to be the means by which threats from an excessively powerful central government were to be repulsed.
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Resurrecting Constitutional Authority: The National Guard and the States
Smatterings of states are pushing back against the deployment of National Guard troops to foreign countries without the proper constitutional authority.
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Rattling the Pentagon’s Cage: Defend the Guard Legislation Threatens the Unconstitutional Status Quo
Threats from Pentagon officials doomed a West Virginia bill that would have blocked unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s National Guard troop
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Is Pres. Obama Authorized to Use National Guard in Liberia?
The National Guard was never to be thought of as merely a pool of reserve troops for the army.
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At the 1787 Convention: State Sovereignty and Standing Armies
It has been 227 years since August 23, 1787, but the debates that occupied the 50 or so delegates present that day at the so-called Federal Convention in Philadelphia can still be heard in Congress today.
On that hot summer day, representatives confronted the delicate and divisive issue of state sovereignty.
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