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Dale in Laurel MD

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4. They were also leery of a standing army,

Reply to alwaysinasnit (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 31, 2021, 06:27 PM

Dec 2021

especially in light of how much unilateral power they had to allow the president (who had been almost a nonentity under the Articles of Confederation). They wanted to make sure that the state-controlled militias couldn't be disarmed or co-opted by the central government.

And of course, in the South, the militia doubled as a slave patrol to prevent unrest.

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