[ansel12]

Good answer.

[bvw]

Thanks, and note that in the Constitution, the Letters of Marque and Rebuke clause PRECEDES the clauses establishing am Army and Navy. The Founders knew the proper value of citizen-warriors. We won the Revolution, including the War of 1812 part of it, not by a regular Army, but by citizen-warriors, militia, buccaneers, an Army that most more irregular than irregular, and a Navy that was completely irregular, and also by hired and loaned private soldiers, groups and fleets.