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To: Ancesthntr

TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > Sec. 311. describes the federal militia, not the well regulated state militia to which the second amendment refers.


146 posted on 07/16/2004 12:43:43 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

Title 10, Sec. 311 is the modern-day descendant of the 1792 Militia Act, which discussed the "militia" as almost all of us understand it to be (i.e. all able-bodied males, or at least those of us between 17 and 45). There is, to my knowledge, no such thing as the "federal militia."


163 posted on 07/16/2004 1:49:09 PM PDT by Ancesthntr
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