2nd Amendment: “Necessary”
2nd Amendment: The Word "Necessary" What is “necessary” is “impossible * * * to be dispensed with”.Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913), ...
2nd Amendment: Proper Grammatical Construction
2nd Amendment: Grammatical ConstructionAs with the Constitution in general, the Second Amendment in particular must be interpreted as a coherent whole, in which every...
2nd Amendment: Proper Constitutional Construction
2nd AmendmentProper Constitutional ConstructionThe Founders provided ready and effective means within the Constitution whereby WE THE PEOPLE themselves could repel invaders, put down domestic insurrectionists, and...
Militia: Not Part of the Regular Armed Forces of the Union or of the...
Militia: Separate and Distinct from the Regular Armed Forces of the Union or StatesFor good reason, the Constitution makes sharp distinctions among “the Militia...
Militia: A Sovereign Entity
Militia: A Sovereign Entity“THE MILITIA OF THE SEVERAL STATES” ARE INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, THOROUGHLY CIVILIAN, WHICH ARE LARGELY OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTION OF CONGRESS THAT...
Senior Class
The Senior ClassThe separate status of the Senior Class did not entail inferior organization. To the contrary: The Senior Class was highly organized throughout...
“Watch” and the “Ward”
"Watch" and the "Ward"To this day the Militia retain the explicit constitutional authority—that no police forces share —“to execute the Laws of the Union”...
Independent Companies
Independent Militia Companies
Contrary to popular belief circulating among many patriots today, constitutional Militia are not formed by a well-intentioned group of people in possession...
Fines
Fines: A Means of Enforcement to Regulate the Militia.
Pre-constitutional Militia enforced discipline by levying fines against defaulters. And that these statutes were not paper...
Exemptions
Legal definition of "exemption"
In general, “to exempt” means “o privilege; to grant immunity from”. More specifically here, “to exempt” means “o release or deliver...
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“Left” vs. “Right” Phony Political Spectrum
"Left" vs. "Right"If WE THE PEOPLE revitalize "the Militia of the several States", we will cut across all the dividing lines in the phony...
“Emergency Powers”
"Emergency Powers"The real "emergency" that confronts Americans is the lust of aspiring and conspiring usurpers and tyrants for power WE THE PEOPLE have withheld...
“War”: The Constitutional Meaning
"War": The Constitutional MeaningConstitutionally speaking, "War" is a specific set of legal relations between two or more independent nations. Therefore no "War" can be...
“Aggregate Powers”
“Aggregate Powers”: Powers Cobbled Together and Exercised by Rogue Government Officials That are Not Enumerated in the Constitution
Typically, when aspiring usurpers and tyrants cannot rationalize...
“Factions” or “Special Interest” Groups
"Factions" or "Special Interest" GroupsAmerica’s Founding Fathers denounced “factions” (what we refer to today as “special interests”) because these groups consist of “a number of citizens,...