The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-08-2020, 12:30 PM)Marypoza Wrote: --- didn't the state militias evolve in2 the National Guard?

Not really. The militia may be federalized to suppress insurrections, to defend against invasion, and enforce the laws. If one looks at that carefully, the militia cannot be sent abroad, which the National Guard was in Bush 43’s Iraq war.

The National Guard is paid and paid for by the federals, which makes them organized as a part of the standing army. The militia is not paid. The militia my not be sent abroad. The National Guard came into existence under Teddy Roosevelt, who wanted a reserve force who could be sent abroad. Thus, he used the standing army laws.

The militia was defined early on as all military aged males (with tweaks) and was left alone by TR and everybody else.

This is evolution in action I suppose if you do not look too closely at the constitution, but the militia has been legally defined (if not well regulated) all along and is quite separate from the National Guard.