Sentence examples for state militias from inspiring English sources

The decision asserted that the Constitution creates an individual right to bear arms beyond the context of state militias.

Americans fought the war on land with essentially two types of organization: the Continental (national) Army and the state militias.

Yesterday's decision took the contrary view, holding that the amendment protects only a collective right to organize state militias.

He said that James Madison wrote the Second Amendment because some Americans feared that Congress would call up the state militias and nationalize them.

Since a standing national army was viewed as the vehicle for this new tyranny, the antidote was to be the state militias.

Granted, the Second Amendment complicates gun regulation (I accept that the framers intended for state militias, and possibly individuals, to have the right to bear flintlocks).

He served as a lieutenant colonel in the New York state militia.

He was the first black person to command one of the four active units of the state militia.

This year the Kentucky State Militia is backing a smaller shoot on the same weekend where camping is free.

Alarmed settlers appealed to Missouri officials for protection, and Gov. Robert Stewart twice dispatched state militia near the Kansas line.

MEMORABLE CUSTOMER A man paid $700 for the Missouri state militia flag that Mr. Lanigan used as a booth backdrop.