Vigilantes? No Mr. President...the Minutemen are American citizens (your bosses) assisting in the enforcement of our duly enacted immigration laws...our Founders would have called them part of the citizen militia
From Madison's Federalist 46 speaking of the danger of an oppressive federal government backed by its regular military:
"To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence."
Article I Section 8 Cl 15
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:
Watch how long it takes for a vigilante drunkard to commit a felonious assault and false imprisonment upon a citizen whose crime is "walking while brown."
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