Under various pretences, Congress may neglect to provide for arming and disciplining the militia; and the state governments cannot do it, for Congress has an exclusive right to arm them &c [et ...

A Reuters analysis of more than 100 federal cases has found that defendants accused of plotting attacks in the name of Islamic State collectively faced more severe charges than militia members, ...

“What will happen is that if you disagree with your governor, you dare not go home. The state police then becomes a militia used to rig elections by the sitting governors.” ...

In 1795, Congress passed another militia act, aimed at giving the president the power to call out the state forces in the event of insurrection. This law did away with the certification ...

The term has a complex history. The Militia Act of 1903 created the National Guard as a reserve for the Army, managed by each state with federal funding, and defined the "unorganised militia" as ...