Resurrecting Constitutional Authority: The National Guard and the States
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
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...