FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I wish that more people would read the Constitution so they don’t have to guess what it says.
Here are the two main clauses imo that give the feds various degrees of policing power in the states.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections [emphasis added] and repel Invasions;"
"Article IV, Section 4: 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 [emphasis added]."
The two clauses give the feds different powers to intervene, depending on the motives behind violence imo. Clause 4.4 limits the fed’s powers to being invited to help suppress domestic violence, gang warfare for example.
On the other hand, when you have violent political groups like desperate Democratic Party front-ends Antifa and BLM who are using their violence to effectively flip their fingers at government authority imo, “Orange Man Bad” in this case, Clause 1.8.15 does the following. It gives the feds the power to decide if violence is intended to destabilize the Union, a constitutional no-no, and intervene to suppress such violence without permission from the states if deemed necessary.
Justice Joseph Story had put it this way about that clause.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"
"In times of insurrection or invasion, it would be natural and proper, that the militia of a neighbouring state should be marched into another to resist a common enemy, or guard the republic against the violence of a domestic faction or sedition [emphasis added]." — Justice Joseph Story, Acticle I, Section 8, Clause 15, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1195--97
Finally, I’d be concerned about possible abuse of federal powers to suppress violence in renegade states like Washington State, Oregon, NY and others too, if anybody but Trump was president.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
Thanks for your comments and research. I believe that the provisions of the Constitution you cite were heavily influenced by Shays’ rebellion in 1786. Protest is one thing; anarchy is another. A president has the constitutional power to oppose and deal with rebellion and anarchy, as well as the violence and destruction that they promote.
I see that Amendment10 explained it first, and better. I salute you.