The Dick Act

This is an interesting read. I shared this with a few friends and the general conversation with one of them went something like this….

C – So why is this not being used.. 
R – my understanding [ from my years in military ] because WE the People are not holding their feet to the fire. 
C – Well we need to publish this in papers. Pool money and do Sign boards..

*** Well folks, what say you? I think that it would settle a lot of argument and make us safer if we went back to the original intent. ***

The Dick
Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June
28, 1902 invalidates all so-called gun-control laws. It also divides the militia
into three distinct and separate entities.
The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth
known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the
unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every
able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. All members of the unorganized militia
have the absolute personal right and 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms
of any type, and as many as they can afford to buy.

The Dick Act of 1902 
cannot be repealed; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The President of the United States has zero authority without violating the Constitution to call the National Guard to serve outside of their State borders.
The National Guard Militia can only be required by the National Government for limited
purposes specified in the Constitution (to uphold the laws of the Union; to
suppress insurrection and repel invasion). These are the only purposes for which
the General Government can call upon the National Guard.

Attorney General Wickersham advised President Taft, “the Organized
Militia (the National Guard) can not be employed for offensive warfare outside the limits
of the United States.”

The Honorable William Gordon, in a speech to the House on Thursday, October 4, 1917,
proved that the action of President Wilson in ordering the Organized Militia
(the National Guard) to fight a war in Europe was so blatantly unconstitutional that he felt 
Wilson ought to have been impeached. During the war with England an attempt was made by Congress to pass a bill
authorizing the president to draft 100,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 to invade enemy territory, Canada.
The bill was defeated in the House by Daniel Webster on the precise point that Congress had no such power over the militia as to authorize it to empower the President to draft them into the regular army and send them out of 
the country.

The fact is that the President has no constitutional right, under any circumstances, to draft men from the militia to fight outside the borders of the USA, and not even beyond the borders of their respective states. Today, we have a constitutional LAW which still stands in waiting for the legislators to obey the Constitution which they swore an oath to uphold.

Charles Hughes of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a speech which is contained in the Appendix 
to Congressional Record, House, September 10, 1917, pages 6836-6840 which states: “The militia, within the meaning of these provisions of the Constitution is distinct from the Army of the United States.” In these pages we also find a statement made by Daniel Webster, “that the great principle of the Constitution on that subject is that the militia is the militia of the States and of the General Government; and thus being the militia of the
States, there is no part of the Constitution worded with greater care and with more scrupulous jealousy 
than that which grants and limits the power of Congress over it.”
“This limitation upon the power to raise and support armies clearly establishes the intent and purpose of 
the framers of the Constitution to limit the power to raise and maintain a standing army to voluntary enlistment, because if the unlimited power to draft and conscript was intended to be conferred, it would have been a useless and puerile thing to limit the use of money for that purpose.

Conscripted armies can be paid, but they are not required to be, and if it had been intended to confer 
the extraordinary power to draft the bodies of citizens and send them out of the country in direct conflict with the limitation upon the use of the militia imposed by the same section and article, certainly some restriction or 
limitation would have been imposed to restrain the unlimited use of such power.”
The Honorable William Gordon Congressional Record, House, Page 640 – 1917

www.angelfire.com/retro/voices/page2.html#1902 is where I got this story from.

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