[Demidog]

Mercenaries is not the proper term. Privateers would be more accurate. No funds are delivered from the National treasury.

I understand your laughter. Nowadays, alot of people laugh at the constitution, the fact that it is the supreme law of the land notwithstanding.

[johniegrad]

I understand your laughter. Nowadays, alot of people laugh at the constitution

Obviously, you do not understand my laughter because it was not the Constitution that I was laughing at.