[Political Junkie Too]

I don't know to what extent the militia was meant to be a policing body vs. a protection against invasion or tyranny.

I suppose Article IV Section 4 could give cover to states to use the militia as a local police:

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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

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-PJ

[palmer]

That section would probably apply to an insurrection that is too big for the state to handle. A decent militia ought to be able to handle an insurrection.