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so then after 1865 anyway, the regulated milita was the national guard--until the reagan period, of course, at which point the national guard became an aspect of the military which enabled republicans to wage illegal little wars without that pesky draft to create political trouble for them. from between 1865, say, and the reagan period, the unorganized militia was everybody.
but now the national guard's status has been changed de facto.
has it been changed de jure as well?
is there an "organized militia"?
and i thought that the purpose of a militia was to protect the citizenry from the state--the purpose of the national guard, prior to the reagan period, was to protect the state from the citizenry.
it doesn't seem to me that the national guard was ever a militia in the sense of how dk and others interpret it in the 2nd amendement--if anything, it was the opposite.
it all starts to get confusing when you think about it.
but the hats are key---nice siggestion, gd.
i want one.
who sends them out in the context of the unorganized militia?
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