Understanding The Modern Militia

So a militia is the able-bodied men of a country, organized into companies, regiments, and brigades. They are distinguished from regular troops by the fact that they are only required to serve in emergencies.

It was expected that each state would have its own militia and that they were necessary to keep the individual states free. It could be security from other states, foreign governments, and, yes, even the central government.

By making sure the states could defend themselves, it gives the Union a powerful and distributed defense force. Of course, that’s not to say that the militia did not have a duty to the central government.

We often talk about our right to be free, but we rarely consider the duties that freedom places on us. We have the right to vote, but does that not include the duty to vote for people of character, who will fulfill their oaths to support the Constitution?

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