Allan, you are so close...yet so far. You are a fairly intelligent ignorati.
Article 2 applies, first off, to Americans, not U.S. Citizens. All three Constitutions are service contracts. The Bills of Rights were added as an afterthought to ensure that the "Hired Help" (the Brits that remained here to continue operating the wheels of government) would not try a reprise of the Lexington and Concord Arms Confiscation fiasco.
The Constitutional guarantees never went anywhere, but the people got dumbed down, to the point where they allowed themselves to be classified as "Tories" (British Territorial U.S. Citizens). Brits that are "residing" (meaning on temporary assignment to provide government services) have no access to the Bills of Rights. Those accrue to the Employers. Contracts always have two sides- Employer and Employee. The Constitutions stipulate what the Hired Help must do. They don't even mention the Employers, save for the Preamble and the BoR.
Finally, the term "Free State" is not discussing a polity or instrumentality. It would have said "Free States," if that were the case, since there were 13 of them initially.
It is the "State of being Free," an existential condition that is the absence of tyranny. And if you are one of the living "people," then you are of the "Militia." The word "Militia" derives from the Latin "Miles," which means...people!
The "National Guard" has nothing whatsoever to do with the notion of a "Militia" as enumerated in Article the Second. The "National Guard" is obedient to the Foreign subcontractors (British Territorial and Roman Municipal), and has nothing whatsoever to do with the living people on the several states.
And the Constitutions could disappear tomorrow and it would not matter one whit for Americans, since our founding document is and has always been The Unanimous Declaration of Independence. Or did people forget that America functioned just fine for almost 11 years without delegating or subcontracting our government out to foreigners?
Allan, you are so close...yet so far. You are a fairly intelligent ignorati.
Article 2 applies, first off, to Americans, not U.S. Citizens. All three Constitutions are service contracts. The Bills of Rights were added as an afterthought to ensure that the "Hired Help" (the Brits that remained here to continue operating the wheels of government) would not try a reprise of the Lexington and Concord Arms Confiscation fiasco.
The Constitutional guarantees never went anywhere, but the people got dumbed down, to the point where they allowed themselves to be classified as "Tories" (British Territorial U.S. Citizens). Brits that are "residing" (meaning on temporary assignment to provide government services) have no access to the Bills of Rights. Those accrue to the Employers. Contracts always have two sides- Employer and Employee. The Constitutions stipulate what the Hired Help must do. They don't even mention the Employers, save for the Preamble and the BoR.
Finally, the term "Free State" is not discussing a polity or instrumentality. It would have said "Free States," if that were the case, since there were 13 of them initially.
It is the "State of being Free," an existential condition that is the absence of tyranny. And if you are one of the living "people," then you are of the "Militia." The word "Militia" derives from the Latin "Miles," which means...people!
The "National Guard" has nothing whatsoever to do with the notion of a "Militia" as enumerated in Article the Second. The "National Guard" is obedient to the Foreign subcontractors (British Territorial and Roman Municipal), and has nothing whatsoever to do with the living people on the several states.
And the Constitutions could disappear tomorrow and it would not matter one whit for Americans, since our founding document is and has always been The Unanimous Declaration of Independence. Or did people forget that America functioned just fine for almost 11 years without delegating or subcontracting our government out to foreigners?