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jmg257

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9. I'm not sure about "and by extension". States could not infringe any more the then the feds could.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:49 PM
Apr 2016

Each state was mandated to always keep up a well armed and well regulated militia...they were "necessary".

Per the Constitution, the central govt required these state entities, when called into federal service, as the primary forces for securing our liberties, our 1st line of defense.

The states & local cannot disarm the militias because doing so would deprive the federal govt the ability to keep the guarantees proclaimed in the constitution:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence."

"Congress shall...provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions".

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