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5204. MILITIA, Improving.—

We should
at every session [of Congress] continue to
amend the defects * * * in the laws for
regulating the militia, until they are sufficiently
perfect. Nor should we now or at
any time separate, until we can say we have
done everything for the militia which we
could do were an enemy at our door.—
First Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 12. Ford ed., viii, 121.
(Dec. 1801)