and called for the training of a colonial militia. Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by ...

In the 1980s, governors again resisted a presidential call for the militia (National Guard). Some of them objected to the deployment of their states’ National Guard troops to Central America.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security ... gunpowder stored in some of the most disaffected areas of colonial America—the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.