I generally do not agree with your premise that a militia could ever exist again. This is 2023 and a lot has changed since the 2nd Amendment was adopted. Can you imagine civilians taking charge of a nuclear submarine or an F16. Can you imagine a civilian force working with the Army, Navy, Air Force. What you actually need to be saying is, since the world population has increased from less than 1 billion in 1776 to 8 billion today it is unreasonable to think of the citizen population playing a role in defense. They're not concerned with hitching the buggy or hunting for game but rather who's on the internet or cell phone, In my opinion the US Constitution is obsolete and needs a major overhaul, for example, instead of putting guns into the hands of every tom, dick and harry, take them from everone except the police and military. The 1st Amendment is ridiculous also. Alex Jones recently learned a good lesson about libel and slander, make people more responsible for what they say.
Lincoln called the militia to defend the United States of America against domestic enemies right after Jefferson Davis ordered the bombing of Fort Sumter. If spies had not given the Union's battle plans to the Confederacy, then the first battle at Bull Run would have ended the war.
Presidential Proclamation (April 15, 1861)
"Lincoln issued that proclamation under the Militia Act of 1795. The proclamation announced the purpose of executing the laws of the United States and securing the integrity of republican government. In accordance with the terms of the Militia Act, Lincoln stated that combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law, obstructed enforcement of the laws in the seven seceded states. In virtue of power vested in the executive by the Constitution and the laws, he called forth 75,000 state militia to suppress the unlawful combinations, commanding the persons who composed them to disperse and retire peaceably within twenty days. Lincoln further issued a statement of war aims addressed to the country as a whole. He declared: ‘I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.’”
— Herman Belz, “Lincoln’s Construction of the Executive Power in the Secession Crisis,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Assocation 27, no. 1 (2006), 13-38.
EXCELLENT!!!! And excellent!!!!
THE SECOND AMENDMENT INCLUDES ALL …EXCEPT GOVERNMENT!!!!
An excellent piece, thank you.
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I generally do not agree with your premise that a militia could ever exist again. This is 2023 and a lot has changed since the 2nd Amendment was adopted. Can you imagine civilians taking charge of a nuclear submarine or an F16. Can you imagine a civilian force working with the Army, Navy, Air Force. What you actually need to be saying is, since the world population has increased from less than 1 billion in 1776 to 8 billion today it is unreasonable to think of the citizen population playing a role in defense. They're not concerned with hitching the buggy or hunting for game but rather who's on the internet or cell phone, In my opinion the US Constitution is obsolete and needs a major overhaul, for example, instead of putting guns into the hands of every tom, dick and harry, take them from everone except the police and military. The 1st Amendment is ridiculous also. Alex Jones recently learned a good lesson about libel and slander, make people more responsible for what they say.
Lincoln called the militia to defend the United States of America against domestic enemies right after Jefferson Davis ordered the bombing of Fort Sumter. If spies had not given the Union's battle plans to the Confederacy, then the first battle at Bull Run would have ended the war.
Presidential Proclamation (April 15, 1861)
"Lincoln issued that proclamation under the Militia Act of 1795. The proclamation announced the purpose of executing the laws of the United States and securing the integrity of republican government. In accordance with the terms of the Militia Act, Lincoln stated that combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law, obstructed enforcement of the laws in the seven seceded states. In virtue of power vested in the executive by the Constitution and the laws, he called forth 75,000 state militia to suppress the unlawful combinations, commanding the persons who composed them to disperse and retire peaceably within twenty days. Lincoln further issued a statement of war aims addressed to the country as a whole. He declared: ‘I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.’”
— Herman Belz, “Lincoln’s Construction of the Executive Power in the Secession Crisis,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Assocation 27, no. 1 (2006), 13-38.