«Elliots Debates Vol 3, Virginia Convention, Saturday June 14, 1788». Teachingamericanhistory.org. 1 de enero de 1980. Consultado el 30 de agosto de 2010. The national government has an exclusive right to provide for arming, organizing, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States. The state governments have the power of appointing the officers, and of training the militia, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, if they should think proper to prescribe any. Should the national government wish to render the militia useless, they may neglect them, and let them perish, in order to have a pretence of establishing a standing army.
