jody
jody's JournalEasier to include them in a state's unorganized militia because state and federal law already exists
for that. See State Guard Association of the United States (SGAUS) which is the more organized part of the unorganized militia.
That would also help Congress finally fulfill its obligation under Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 & 16.
"{The Congress shall have Power} To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
{The Congress shall have Power} To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
The Militia is already defined by law as
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
In one state the militia includes all people17-64 years of age.
2A is about an individual's RKBA for self defense. Congress has all the authority it needs for the
militia in Article I, Section 8, clauses 15 & 16.
SCOTUS acknowledged in Heller both opinion and dissent that individuals have a natural, inherent, inalienable/unalienable right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
The main difference was the opinion said that right was in the Second Amendment and the dissent disagreed but recognized the right in the extract below.
The dissent by recognizing the right but asserting it was not an enumerated right protected by the Second Amendment meant the right was an unenumerated right protected by the Ninth Amendment.
Perhaps you need to read the Heller decision. I'm not impressed by your PhD.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/07-290P.ZORight To Work, poverty, and health
In responding to other OP about Right to Work I obtained data for poverty and health at the state level from two sources:
The Research SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE: 2011, Table 4
http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
America's Health Ranking report
http://www.americashealthrankings.org/ALL/2012
I grouped the data into Non Right to Work states and Right to Work states and calculated the following:
POVERTY
15.78 per 1,000 poverty rate in states without a right-to-work law
15.80 per 1,000 poverty rate in states with a right-to-work law
and
58% of those in poverty live in states without a right-to-work law.
42% of those in poverty live in states with a right-to-work law.
HEALTH
0.30 value for non right to work states average
-0.23 value for right to work states average
Hope someone will check my numbers.
I understand. "The Research SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE: 2011"
Table 4. People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Averages Over 20091, 20101, and 2011—Con reports 48,423 people below the poverty level. http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
58% of those in poverty live in states without a right-to-work law.
42% of those in poverty live in states with a right-to-work law.
There are many things that could affect our economy. I'm not sure how much right to work laws contribute.
Very depressing for AL Latest figures show CA with 37+ million people has a 23.5% SPM 3-year average
page 12, table "People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Averages Over 20091, 20101, and 2011" at http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf
Alabama, 5 million people, has a rate of 14.5% for the same period.
Excluding TX, the other 7 states have 32 million people.
Apparently few have read the Sedition Act so I post it below.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/5th_Congress/2nd_Session/Chapter_74Known as the "Sedition Act", this act is the last of the four that make up the Alien and Sedition Acts.
[Expired.]
Chap. LXXIV.—An Act in addition to the act, entitled "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States."
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Penalty on unlawful combinations to oppose the measures of government, &c.
Ante, p. 112.That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; And with such intent counselling &c. insurrections, riots, &c.and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof; shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Penalty on libelling the government That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted and declared, Truth of the matter may be given in evidence.
The jury shall determine the law and the fact, under the court's direction.
Limitation. That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided, that the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.
Approved, July 14, 1798.
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