The militia system, with deep roots in English history, was one way of ensuring that the nation could defend itself against all threats, foreign and domestic. Instead of a large full-time ...
The Congress shall have Power To ...provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States ...
On December 11, the militia raided Blennerhassett's Island ... He would live the rest of his life in relative obscurity, his dreams of empire forever undone.