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This article is from the Lawful Arrest/Search/Seizure FAQ, by Ahimsa Dhamapada ahimsa@mu.clarityconnect.net with numerous contributions by others.

1.12: Are Police un-Constitutional!!??

Well, perhaps State Police are. Don't Believe it!?
Read the US Constitution, Art. I, Sec 10:

"No State shall, without the consent of Congress,
... Keep Troops or Ships of War in Time of
Peace...."

Keep this in mind the next time you get stopped and
accused of the crime of "possessing improper velocity"
by a STATE TROOPER!

It is clear from the founding documents, that the Founding
Fathers considered any occupying government police force
one of the greatest threats to liberty imaginable. The
Founders imagined that instead we should have a local,
civilian defense force, made up of every able-bodied man
in the community, called the militia.

Notice the words "without the consent of Congress". This
could explain the Presidential edicts to "Fight the War
on Drugs", "Fight the War on Poverty", "Fight the War
on Illiteracy", etc., and the laws passed by Congress to
fight these bogus "wars".

OK, this question really isn't asked all that frequently ;^)

 

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