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Standing Army or Militia For America?

March 17, 2015 By Richard C. Young

American militia firing at the British infantry from behind a split rail fence during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781
1976, Illustration by Don Troiani, Courtesy of
National Park Service

“The Militia: In History and Today,” an article in The New American, offers compelling insights:

The army — defender or destroyer of freedom? Throughout history power-hungry rulers have used armies to conquer and oppress other lands, and to impose tyranny on their own people. But armies have also been used to defend country and freedom — particularly when the government is restrained from abusing the power of the sword, and when the military itself is composed of citizen-soldiers who love liberty and have a strong attachment to the homeland they are entrusted to defend.

Across the ocean and across the millennia, Aristotle would have agreed:

A king’s bodyguard is composed of citizens carrying arms; a tyrant’s of foreign mercenaries. … Members of the constitution must carry [arms] even among themselves, both for internal government and in the event of civil disobedience and to repel external aggression. … For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not.

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