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Originally Posted by Bartholomew Roberts
You guys both just said the same thing. You both said that the founding fathers supported the idea of Militia as primary defense, but also kept a small standing army.
The one place you disagree is when it comes to the foreign policy. And you rightfully disagree, because, as I thought about this, I realized that some of our founding fathers would approve, and others would not. The Federalists had no problem going to war in the interests of the nation, and therefore would support the modern nations actions. On the contrary, Jefferson and his Democratic-Republicans opposed military action, and would not stand for what the US is currently doing.
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I think the Founders didn't "support" a
philosophy of having a militia as the primary means of national defense. The Founders implemented a POLICY of having a militia as the primary means of national defense because that's all they could afford. Saying that the Founders had a philosophy of militia as primary national defense because they implemented such a policy, is like saying that India believes in having extremely unsanitary conditions because they implement policies that do not address the lack of sanitation in their cities. In reality, they have no money for those projects, it's not that they don't believe in sanitation, just as with the Founders, they had no money for a large standing army and that is the main reason they didn't have one.
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