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Winterwind said:
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
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When the nations government calls upon the militia (before we had a standing army), it clarified the Congress had the authority to draft training regimen, while the states retained the right to appoint officers, and had to enforce that congressional training regimen.
Even though we have a standing army, and national guard, we still have the right to a militia, though the government no longer recognizes this militia as an official arm of its defense, except in foreign invasion of our homeland, in which case you would see a national call to arms.