Quote:
Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
I would like to ask though, would not the various State National Guards be the legitimate inheritors to the original militias? I know they are heavily "federalized" but weren't they set up as a counter to a federal military trying to enforce federal policy onto the states?
|
I cannot speak for each state, but when I joined the WA State National Guard, one of the things that they told us is that by state constitution we are supposed to help train the militia. So if we are to train the militia we cannot be the inheritors of the original militias. Now having said that I do think that to most politicians they are, and it may not be in the constitutional sense but for practical purposes I think that they have taken that role, as the "real" militia being something that they cannot control scares them.