"The militia, within the  meaning of these provisions of the Constitution is distinct from the  Army of the United States." In these pages we also find a statement made  by Daniel Webster, "that the great principle of the Constitution on  that subject is that the militia is the militia of the States and of the  General Government; and thus being the militia of the States, there is  no part of the Constitution worded with greater care and with more  scrupulous jealousy than that which grants and limits the power of  Congress over it."

"This limitation upon the  power to raise and support armies clearly establishes the intent and  purpose of the framers of the Constitution to limit the power to raise  and maintain a standing army to voluntary enlistment, because if the  unlimited power to draft and conscript was intended to be conferred, it  would have been a useless and puerile thing to limit the use of money  for that purpose. Conscripted armies can be  paid, but they are not required to be, and if it had been intended to  confer the extraordinary power to draft the bodies of citizens and send  them out of the country in direct conflict with the limitation upon the  use of the militia imposed by the same section and article, certainly  some restriction or limitation would have been imposed to restrain the  unlimited use of such power."