• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Fun fact, that’s because of a SCOTUS ruling in the 1940’s. They just arbitrarily decided that the militia was everyone.

    If we want to get originalist about this the well regulated militias refers to men of a town who were in good standing and drilled regularly under official supervision. They were also subject to call up by the town, county, state, and federal governments.

    The only things we have with that structure are the Reserves and National Guard.