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Just set it up like the US was meant to be set up, a weak federal government that is in charge of defense of the whole, interstate commerce, and foreign relations.
Just don’t whatever you do let it start an income tax, that is where it really went sideways here. Well, that and the slavery thing.
No, just militias, and a dedicated officer core in case they are needed, which we have had from the start in West Point, Senators get their patron’s kids in there as favours usually. Not until WWI do I think there was a standing army of the federal government. Let alone federal law enforcement.
Just set it up like the US was meant to be set up, a weak federal government that is in charge of defense of the whole, interstate commerce, and foreign relations.
Just don’t whatever you do let it start an income tax, that is where it really went sideways here. Well, that and the slavery thing.
The US wasn’t supposed to have a standing army.
No, just militias, and a dedicated officer core in case they are needed, which we have had from the start in West Point, Senators get their patron’s kids in there as favours usually. Not until WWI do I think there was a standing army of the federal government. Let alone federal law enforcement.