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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Alan Conor"  wrote in message   
   news:XnsAE4CBF6BB5028CE4O@0.0.0.0...   
   > On 28 Feb 2022, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
   > news:g%5TJ.20638$4vG9.6219@fx19.iad:   
   >   
   >> But Virginia had serious, slave-related concerns. And she did not   
   >> agree to ratify without testimony by two high-profile, Anti-Federalist   
   >> Virginians, Patrick Henry and George Mason. They spoke about Article   
   >> I, Section 8, authorizing Congress to call forth, organize, arm, and   
   >> discipline the militia.   
   >   
   > "Washington served as Commander-in-Chief of the army throughout the War.   
   > When Washington assumed command, the Continental Army truly was not even   
   > an army. Rather, it was a loosely and poorly coordinated band of militias   
   > and citizen-soldiers under control of the individual states."   
   >   
   > Without a militia there would have been no army.   
   >   
   >  encyclopedia/article/continental-army/>   
   >   
   > Basic facts, Rudy.  Basic facts.   
      
   Yep, and even today, the military is drawn from the militia. You are in the   
   militia before you are in the military, BY LAW.   
      
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