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In article 16361883@news.gmu.edu, jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu (John M Atkinson) writes:
:Thus Spake mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu (Michael T Shinn):
:
:%John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
:%: The Virginia Militia Law.  I'll quote it all if you like.
:%
:%Are you actually trying to make the superfulous argument that the Virginia
:%Nation Guard - part of the US Army no less - is the state militia?  That
:%somehow the Guard is created by STATE law?
:
:			Article 1
:			Classification of Militia
:Para 44-1.  Composition of miliita.--The militia of the Commonwealth of Virginia
:shall consist of all able-bodied citizens of this Commonwealth and all other
:able-bodied persons resident in this Commonwealth who have declared thier
:intnention to become citizens of the United States, who are at least sixteen
:years of age, and, except as hereinafter provided, not more than fifty-five
:years of age.  The militia shall be divided into four classes, The National
:Guard, which includes the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, the
:Virginia State Defence Force, the naval militia, and the unorganized militia.
:
:Sounds like it to me.  

John, the VA law pretty much restates federal law in 10 USC 311, 312.

:
:Yes, Yes and No.  Yes, the National Guard is part of the Army.  Yes the US Army
:is an Army.  However, the National Guard fills a dual role.  Say it slowly...
:D-U-A-L. R-O-L-E.

Right, the state gets to use them as long as the feds don't need them.