[Tublecane]

To explain how not all able-bodied adult men were not militia members in the colonial era, follow me. Colonial legislatures called the militia in times of trouble, setting a quota in line with the needs of the campaign. Local militia members recruited volunteers and if necessary drafted members of the community to fill the quota, though that was not normally necessary.

Now, I ask you, how do you draft someone into the militia if they’re already militia members? Hie does that work? I’ll tell you how: they weren’t in the militia until they volunteered or were forced in. Priorto that they were merely members of the community and the pool out if which militiamen were drawn.

You cannot redefine the pool as the militia. It doesn’t work that way.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**To explain how not all able-bodied adult men were not militia members in the colonial era, follow me.**

Here.
http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/bioterrorism/8military/milita01.htm

***You cannot redefine the pool as the militia. It doesn’t work that way.***

The LAW of the US defines what is a militia man, not me.