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Mississippi
Minuteman
Militia

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right
of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
-U.S. Constitution 2nd Amendment

"The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must
be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?
Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.
Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American...the unlimited power of the
sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain,
in the hands of the people."
~ Tench Coxe, 1789

"I will always refer to myself as Militia, even if it is only a Militia of one".
-Drew Rayner, Commander, Mississippi Militia

Mississippi Minuteman Militia

"Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset.
When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards,
and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage.
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government.
Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long."
~ Congressman Ron Paul, Aug 9, 2004

ARE YOU DOING
YOUR
CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY
FOR "HOMELAND
SECURITY"?

First Inaugural Address, March 4 1829
Andrew Jackson

"Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek
to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience
which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power. The gradual
increase of our Navy, whose flag has displayed in distant climes our skill in navigation and our
fame in arms; the preservation of our forts, arsenals, and dockyards, and the introduction of
progressive improvements in the discipline and science of both branches of our military service
are so plainly prescribed by prudence that I should be excused for omitting their mention sooner
than for enlarging on their importance.

But the bulwark of our defense is the national militia, which in the present state of our intelligence
and population must render us invincible. As long as our Government is administered for the
good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person
and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending; and so long as
it is worth defending a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable aegis. Partial injuries and
occasional mortifications we may be subjected to, but a million of armed freemen, possessed of
the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore,
calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in
my power."

Why Does There Need to be a
Constitutional Militia?

Who is the Constitutional Militia?

Why Join the Constitutional Militia?

Is the Constitutional Militia a
Racist, Militant, or Extremist
Organization?

Why Does the Constitutional Militia
Need to Train and Have Weapons
Like the Military?

Mississippi Militia
Laws

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
MISSISSIPPI

Article 9, Section 214. Persons subject to military duty.

All able-bodied male citizens of the state between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five years shall be liable to
military duty in the militia of this state, in such manner as
the legislature may provide.

SOURCES: 1869 art IX § 1.

Article 9, Section 220. Exemption of militia from arrest for
certain offenses.

The militia shall be exempt from arrest during their
attendance on musters, and in going to and returning
from the same, except in case of treason, felony, or
breach of the peace.

SOURCES: 1869 art IX § 8.

MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 33-5-1. Composition of the Militia.

The militia of the State of Mississippi shall consist of all
able-bodied citizens of the state between the ages of
seventeen (17) and sixty-two (62) years, who are not
exempt by law of this state or of the United States,
together with all other able-bodied persons who shall
voluntarily enlist or accept commission, appointment or
assignment to duty therein, subject to such
classifications as may be hereinafter prescribed. The
militia shall be divided into three (3) classes: The national
guard, the Mississippi State Guard, and the unorganized
militia. The unorganized militia shall consist of all
persons liable to service in the militia, but not members of
the national guard or the Mississippi State Guard.

A seventeen-year-old person shall not be allowed to
enlist or be assigned to duty without the written consent
of both parents, if living, or one (1) parent if one (1) is
deceased, or if both parents are deceased, the guardian
of such person.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8519-21; Laws, 1966, ch.
539, Sec. 11; 1973, ch. 310, Sec. 1, eff from and after
passage (approved March 2, 1973).

SEC. 33-5-9. Unorganized militia; when subject to duty.

The unorganized militia, or any part thereof, shall not be
subject to any active military duty, except when called
into the service of the United States or when called into
the service of this state by the governor in case of war,
rebellion, insurrections, invasion, tumult, riot, breach of
the peace, public calamity or catastrophe or other state
or national emergency or imminent danger thereof. When
the militia of this state, or any part thereof, is called forth
under the constitution and laws of the United States, the
governor shall first order out for service the national
guard, and then the Mississippi State Guard, or such
parts thereof as may be necessary, and if the number
available be insufficient, he shall then order out such part
of the unorganized militia as he may deem that the
necessity requires.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8519-25; Laws, 1966, ch.
539, Sec. 15, eff from and after June 1, 1966.

The Right to Self-Defense

"The Constitution of most of our
states (and of the United States)
asserts that all power is inherent
in the people; that they may
exercise it by themselves; that it
is their right and duty to be at all
times armed." -Thomas Jefferson

"That the People have a right to
keep and bear Arms; that a well
regulated Militia, composed of
the Body of the People, trained
to arms, is the proper, natural,
and safe Defence of a free state."

-George Mason, declaration of "the
essential and unalienable Rights of the
People," later adopted by the Virginia
ratification convention, 1788

"God grants liberty only to those
who love it and are always ready to
guard and defend it."
- Daniel Webster

"One man with courage is a
majority."
-Thomas Jefferson

"God grants liberty only to
those who love it, and are
always ready to guard and
defend it."
- Daniel Webster

"To the framers "militia" means the average Joe [a]nd all
his friends and neighbors, acting together to preserve their
Union. The Founding Fathers ha[d] a strong distrust of
standing armies, hence the invalidation of those gun-haters
who think the National Guard fulfills this function. The
purpose of the Second Amendment is clearly to enable the
average citizen to protect himself individually, and the
national collectively, from tyranny. Moreover, the phrase
"right of the citizen" is a phrase used rarely in the
Constitution. It both proclaims the right to do something,
and recognizes that that right pre-dates the Constitution
itself. That's simple grammar, requiring no constitutional
lawyer to explain it. If one can argue that the 2nd
Amendment has no meaning in contemporary society, one
can similarly argue that the 1st Amendment can be similarly
ignored, since the phraseology is largely the same. The
short version is, don't mess with the Constitution."
-Tom Clancy, writing on alt.books.tom-clancy, 29 May 1995 09:59:09 -0400

"It is undoubtedly true that all citizens capable of bearing arms constitute the reserved
military force or reserve militia of the United States as well as of the states, and, in view of
this prerogative of the general government, as well as of its general powers, the states
cannot, even laying the constitutional provision in question out of view, prohibit the people
from keeping and bearing arms, so as to deprive the United States of their rightful resource
for maintaining the public security, and disable the people from performing their duty to the
general government."
-U.S. Supreme Court, Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252, 265 (1886)

'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men,
women, and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms
of every description, and not such merely as are used by the
militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in
the smallest degree; and all for the important end to be
attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia,
so vitally necessary to the security of a free state. Our opinion
is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the
Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right."
- Georgia Supreme Court, Nunn v. Georgia, (1 Kel.) 243, 249-51 (1846)

"For a people who are free, and who
mean to remain so, a well organized and
armed militia is their best security.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
Eighth "State of the Union" address [Annual Message],
November 8, 1808

National Militia Forums

"If ye love wealth greater than
liberty, the tranquility of
servitude greater than the
animating contest for freedom,
go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel nor your
arms. Crouch down and lick the
hand that feeds you; and may
posterity forget that ye were
once our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams

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