marshaul
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sv_libertarian wrote:
sv_libertarian wrote:
You guys got it. There was a very good reason our government was not authorized to maintain a standing army indefinitely.N00blet45 wrote:Bingo. That is why there has to be appropriations every two years in Congress for the army, and why the rely so heavily on the backdoor approach of the National Guard and Reserve forces.I think the idea was that there would never be a large government-controlled force of arms. Instead the government had to rely on calling forth the militia (the people with their arms) or raising an army which could not be funded past 2 years.
The National Guard is merely a perversion of the militia system (no offense to Guard members please, you do a heck of a job) and was instituted to ensure total Federal control over the "militia", and make the states dependent upon the feds to keep their local troops maintained to a great degree.