Our U.S. President and Commander in Chief has broad and almost limitless power related to declaration of emergency and control of our national defense and its deployment in times of need.

The National Guard, the standard bearers of our State Militia, continue the service of our Revolutionary War veterans and even later American Civil War troops, all of which were trained and dispatched in the states, and which legally can be ‘federalized’ into national service, domestically and abroad. The District of Columbia is not a state, though the municipal government has a massive budget and a population of more than 700,000 across 68.35 square miles. The President and Congress retain Home Rule Control when necessary over the district created from land donated by the Commonwealth of Virginia and th

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