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is, at the time of the constitution, a weakening institution which turned out primarily as an occasional police force, often as a slave patrol.

The militia, by contrast, began to rust on the home front, turning out primarily as an occasional police force, often as a slave patrol. When it did turn out, it did not include all, or only, citizens. Rich men could purchase exemptions by paying poor men to go in their places, and sometimes even those who were not citizens could be subject to militia duty.'= In short, the states' military forces had come less and less to resemble the military incarnation of the citizenry assembled.

is, in fact, less concerned with trying to shrink government, as is often argued, and more concerned about putting God in government.

In advance of a new edition of their book American Grace, political scientist David E. Campbell of Notre Dame and Robert D. Putnam of Harvard published in a The New York Times opinion the results of their research into the political attitudes and background of Tea Party supporters. Using a pre-Tea Party poll in 2006 and going back to the same respondents in 2011, they found the supporters to be not 'nonpartisan political neophytes' as often described, but largely 'overwhelmingly partisan Republicans' who were politically active prior to the Tea Party. The survey found Tea Party supporters 'no more likely than anyone else' to have suffered hardship during the 2007-2010 recession. Additionally, the respondents were more concerned about 'putting God in government' than with trying to shrink government.

is, in fact, no more likely than anyone else to have suffered hardship during the 2007-2010 recession.

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