Thanks to the main
stream media and anti gun political agendas the word militia is likely to have
most running in fear. The word brings to mind images of ragtag red necked
racists running around the woods with “machine guns” and swastikas. While there
are certainly radical groups out there claiming to be militias; the concept of
an organized militia derives its authority from the U.S. constitution for the
purpose of maintaining liberty and defending the nation from hostile invasions.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15 states that-
“The congress shall have the power to….provide for the calling forth of
the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrection and repel
invasion.”
According to
Richard Henry Lee, the “militia,” when properly formed is made up of the people
themselves and includes all men who are able to bear arms. Put in the context of the U.S. constitution
this makes sense because the idea of our republic is that the people are
sovereign to government power and the government is a servant to the people. This
could not be the case except for the first ten amendments to the U.S.
constitution which are known as the bill of rights. Today it seems as if many
people accept the idea that the federal government, through the supremacy
clause has total power over the states. This is untrue, they only have supreme
power over those laws that support the constitution and the tenth amendment
explicitly states that-
All
powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and
the people, respectively.
This supports the
rights of the people to be armed and ready to act in defense of the nation.
Many people today feel that the idea of militias and an armed citizenry is
outdated and unnecessary because we have an Army. In fact many would argue that
the National Guard is the constitutionally authorized militia. Not true, the
reality is that the only constitutionally authorized military force to be
funded and maintained by the government is the United States Navy. Article 1,
Section 8, Clause 13
“The congress shall have the power to provide and maintain a Navy”
While Article 1,
Section 8, Clause 12 states that-
“The congress shall have the power to raise and support armies, but no
appropriations of money to that use shall be for more than two years.”
That means that
the standing U.S. Army is in fact an unconstitutional entity receiving money illegally.
The founders, at the time of signing the constitution understood that standing
armies historically have been the greatest threat to the liberties of the
people. That is still true today as the
tyrannies of the twentieth century saw the world’s most brutal dictators use
their standing armies to commit mass murder on an unprecedented scale. At the
time of course the founders would have been referring to the armies of Great
Britain and the history of the Roman Empire as examples. This clause explicitly
describes the congress’ responsibility to provide funding for the state militias
while giving it a choice to provide for a “national military.” This is more
evident by the actual wording of the second amendment. Not too many people
realize that the second amendment is the only place in the constitution where
the word “necessary” is found. The word is referring to the maintenance of the
peoples militias.
The purpose of our
constitutional republic based on the rule of law is to protect the sovereignty
of the people, and ensure government did not have the power to suppress the
rights of freemen. Our constitution is
not a granter of our natural rights, it only states what they are, while
establishing a system of government where the power to protect those rights is
derived from us, the people of the United States. Any law that is passed in
direct contradiction to the constitution is null and void and people have no
obligation to follow such laws. The precedent for this was established in
Norton vs. Shelby County in 1886. http://www.ncrepublic.org/lib_unconstitutionalact.php
Failure to understand this is essentially the only way a free people can lose
their rights. This is why there is such an influence of the social and
behavioral sciences colluding with government and education. They seek to
psychologically condition you to surrender your rights out of fear and
uncertainty.
The constitution
describes the powers of the federal government as few and limiting in scope so
as to ensure that the vast majority of political power would remain with the
states and people, as described above in the Tenth amendment. When government
abuses these powers the people are under no obligation to offer allegiance as
the governments primary responsibility is the preservation of life, liberty,
property and the people’s right to pursue their own ends, to pursue happiness.
In fact, it is the responsibility of sovereign state governments to immediately
enact laws that protect the constitutional rights of its citizens in the face
of such usurpations. This includes but is not limited to laws concerning the
constitutional militia and gun control. In fact, 1903 a law was passed that was
to prohibit the federal government from ever trying to enact gun control laws
based on this very reasoning. This was called the Dick Act of 1902. http://patriotaction.net/profiles/blogs/dick-act-of-1902-the
While the context
of this article will certainly appear radical to many, it doesn't change the
historical facts presented.
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