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On May 31, 1787, the Convention considered adding to the powers of Congress the right: "to call forth the force of the union against any member of the union, failing to fulfil its duty under the articles thereof."29 The clause was rejected after James Madison spoke against it:

"A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State, would look more like a declaration of war, than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound."30

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The clause was rejected after James Madison spoke against it...

But the power was later given to the president under the terms of the Militia Act. And nowhere does the Constitution say that troops cannot be called out against a state in rebellion against the federal government.