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The Militia act of July 1862 authorized the President to employ black people on behalf of the Union war effort as laborers and soldiers.
The Militia Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 597, enacted July 17, 1862) was an Act of the 37th United States Congress, during the American Civil War, that authorized a militia draft within a state when the state could not meet its quota with volunteers.
13 Ιουλ 2023 · But, even with the discrimination in pay, the Militia Act of 1862 was a remarkable assault on slavery. Throughout the Confederacy—and in the loyal slave states—the U.S. Army could recruit slaves to fight for the nation and against slavery.
28 Νοε 2006 · A Well-Regulated Militia is, in short, an excellent explanation of why the Framers wrote that A well-regulated miltia was necessary to the security of a free state. It omits, or misreads, the reasons why they did not stop there, but added on a right of the people to keep and bear arms.
This paper uses the Texas militia as a starting point to discuss the history and devel-opment of the National Guard—known as the militia until its formal designation as the National Guard in 1903—and to provide background for the current debate.
3 Αυγ 2006 · It shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but as a civic right — an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could participate in a well regulated militia. The book shows how the modern “collective right” view of the Second Amendment, the one ...
Jon Roland, founder of the Constitution Society (www.constitution.org) prepared the Texas Militia Papers that helped launch and guide the formation of the Texas Constitutional Militia, followed by the modern day U.S. militia movement.
