Agit8r
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And yet, the power to create such a thing was given to the federal government - and to the federal governement, exclusively - by the Constitution."There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.
--Thomas Jefferson; letter to David Humphreys (1789)
True. But such power ought to be limited to actual necessity, and be checked by the power of the people over the prerogative of the executive