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A comment on H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015. Parent comment

Re:H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year... by nextw33k on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @08:15AM (#8756948)
That is an interesting point of view, the government and the state are two separate things. You cannot overthrow a state (since it is a community) but you can overthrow a hostile government.

The American militia were part of the revolution to overthrow the British government and the recognition of that is codified in the Second Amendment.

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Re:H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year... by frostmatthew on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @06:54PM (#8760334)
You're confusing nation[1] with state[2][3] (though you may be correct that it might be more accurate to say "overthrow a government"). The writers of the Constitution didn't envision a standing army (or at least not a very large one) which is why they a) gave Congress the power to raise armies and b) highlighted the importance of a "well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state."

"Security" meant repelling foreign invaders and stopping insurrections, not starting them. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...

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