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To: SauronOfMordor

>> This is the militia model envisioned by the Founders Police forces are a relatively recent invention

Yep. And there is absolutely zero constitutional justification for federal police forces or police powers.


20 posted on 05/14/2024 4:44:03 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick
And there is absolutely zero constitutional justification for federal police forces or police powers

Actually to a degree there is. The Constitution says the President has "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"(Article II section 3) which implies the ability to enforce, and George Washington himself led the military to enforce collection of alcohol excise taxes during the Whiskey Rebellion.

But a strict reading of the Constitution would strike down most federal laws as unconstitutional.

25 posted on 05/14/2024 5:44:05 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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