Militia

Why We Need Independent Militias

by Tenth Amendment | Aug 1, 2016 | Constitution, Militia

by Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute Early Americans feared the federal government would overwhelm the states with a large standing army and better-armed military force. To prevent this, many supported a decentralized system of state militias which would provide the bulk...

Resurrecting Constitutional Authority: The National Guard and the States

by P.A. Deacon | Jun 5, 2015 | Constitution 101, Militia

Around the globe, the United States has intervened militarily for over one-hundred years, supposedly to preserve the American way of life and “spread democracy.” But after billions spent and thousands of lives lost in pursuit of this dual mandate, many...

Rattling the Pentagon’s Cage: Defend the Guard Legislation Threatens the Unconstitutional Status Quo

by Shane Trejo | May 25, 2015 | Militia, War Powers

Threats from Pentagon officials doomed a West Virginia bill that would have blocked unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s National Guard troops and effectively restored the founders’ framework for a state-federal balance on the Guard. But while the bill...

Is Pres. Obama Authorized to Use National Guard in Liberia?

by Harold Pease | Oct 27, 2014 | Constitution, Current Events, Executive Power, Foreign Policy, Militia, War Powers

Recent headlines indicate that President Barack Obama is sending the National Guard to Liberia to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus. Their assignment, according to Obama in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, is to “augment the active forces in...

At the 1787 Convention: State Sovereignty and Standing Armies

by Joe Wolverton, II | Aug 26, 2014 | Constitution, Constitutional Convention, History, Militia

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...

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