President Trump, the Constitution, and the National Guard Cases
How extensive is the Presidentโs power to deploy state units of the National Guard for federal law enforcement? On June 19, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled inย Newsom v. Trumpย that the President could deploy the Guard to protect federal...
The Militia the Founders Envisioned, and What Remains Today
โWho are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.โย George Mason cut to the heart of it: the militia was not a government creation, but the people themselves. That simple truth has been twisted, ignored, or totally forgotten. Say the word โmilitiaโ today and...
The Cornerstone of a Free Society: Everyone Should be Armed
“Self-defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish.”ย Thatโs how the great Mercy Otis Warren put it. But this wasnโt just a philosophical view for the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. They knew an armed society was...