January 06, 2011 02:10:54 PM
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Amber Pinter
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Article 1, section 8, sub section 15
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We want to hear about your favorite passage of the constitution, and may invite you to follow up on-air or online. Need a refresher? Here it is.
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."
I am from Little Rick, Arkansas and this power of the federal government was very clearly seen in the desegregation of Central High School using the military to enforce the law.
Unfortunately The Congress and Pres. Andrew Jackson infamously did not use this power to support the Supreme Court's decision involving the Cherokee Nation's treaty rights and property rights directly leading to the Trail of Tears(which passed through our state in the 1830s).