Even militia can be nationalized.

[Scott Markowitz]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he speaking of people acting through 
their states, rather than through the national government?

Scott Markowitz
University of Florida

Calvin Johnson wrote:
>
> . George Mason argued in Virginia that if you allow nationalization of 
> the militia, then Congress can send the Georgia militia to New 
> Hampshire and vice versa, which would be such harassment that people 
> would abolish the militias and rely on the standing army, Speech to 
> the Virginia Ratification Convention, June 14, 1788, 3 ELLIOT’S 
> DEBATES 387.
>
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