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underpants

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2. The army is not established by the Constitution + read the THIRD Amendment

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Jun 14, 2016, 11:24 AM

Jun 2016

That is my short answer to the NRA and their watercarriers. Militias had to be ready to assemble for defense. It is generally considered now that we have a standing Army but it actually has to be funded by each new Congress. There was no standing Army them, a fact that Naval officers point out repeatedly to their Army colleagues (I have read and heard).

The 3rd Amendment puts the whole thing into context as does the article posted.

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