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FireTower@lemmy.world 9 months ago“[historical] (in the US) all able-bodied citizens eligible by law to be called on to provide military service supplementary to the regular armed forces.”
-oxford language dictionary
The 2nd amendment wouldn’t need to give states the rights to have their own national guard because of the 10th amendment.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
States are sovereign governments so yes they have to be granted the right to bare arms.
FireTower@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” -10th amendment
Transition: Any power not specifically granted to the federal government is maintained by the states or the people unless prohibited otherwise.