A group of supporters organized by Diego Rivera of Bring Our Troops Home testified in favor of the bill. Supporters covered a wide range of topics, from constitutional and legal issues to the cost of endless, undeclared wars.
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Titled the Defend the Guard Act, under the proposed law, the Maine governor could not release the state’s National Guard units into “active duty combat” unless Congress has “passed an official declaration of war or taken official action pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15 of the United States Constitution.”
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When you get into a war, you never know how it is going to turn out, but Thomas Paine pointed out one thing we can always bank on – we’re going to pay for it.
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BOISE, Idaho (March 7, 2023) – A bill filed in the Idaho Senate would require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’ framework for a state-federal balance under the Constitution. The Senate State Affairs Committee introduced […]
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Titled the Defend the Guard Act, the legislation would prohibit the governor from releasing any unit or member of the Arizona National Guard into “active duty combat” unless specific constitutional requirements are met
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Can’t say we weren’t warned. Over and over, and over - and over. Yet here we are today - and as James Madison and others told us - war is costing us dearly, and it’s not just the insane amount being spent, either.
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Titled the Defend the Guard Act, the legislation would prohibit the governor from releasing any unit or member of the Arizona National Guard into “active duty combat” unless specific constitutional requirements are met
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James Madison warned of all the enemies of liberty, war was “the most to be dreaded.”
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In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams requested permission to address a joint session of Congress. Such a request is unheard of in modern times. What was on his mind?
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It is important to focus on the Constitution, the document that President Biden and the Democrats and even some Republicans have suddenly discovered and begun revering
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