...legislation reaffirming the notion of a privately equipped militia of the whole. The act, titled "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...an Uniform Militia throughout the United States," called for the enrollment of every free, able-bodied whitemale citizen between the ages of 18 and 45...

...the provisions of Article I., section S, above quoted, passed the act of May S, l792, entitled " An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...an Uniform Militia throughout the United States," l Stat. 27l, the act of February 23, l795, "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the...

...define citizenship for the New World polity.22 Nor is it surprising that when Congress first penned "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States" (1792), the new militia's participants were defined as "each and every free able-bodied white male...

...moved ahead to establish rules and procedures governing the militias. Titled "An Act more effectively to provide for the National Defence by establishing...an Uniform Militia throughout the United States," the Uniform Militia Act of 1792 defined the nation's militia (in keeping with American militia tradition)...

...Press, 1998), 132-41. 51. Stone,/! Brittle Sword, 34, 38; David Crouch interview, 12CC229, Draper; "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence,...an Uniform Militia throughout the United States," 8 May 1792, Second Congress, Sess. l,Sec. 1. 52. Kentucky Gazette, 19 June 1823; "An Act more effectually...

...Navies, 78, for the number of defections. 34. Second Congress. Session I. Statute I. Chap. XXXIII.— An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence,...establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States. Approved, May 8, 1792. US, Laws, statutes, The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, 1789-1873...

...with the news of St. Clair's defeat did Congress take any action. On 8 May 1792. Congress passed "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...an Uniform Militia throughout the United States." Reform had been debated on and off since December 1790 and the main result of these deliberations was...

...were obliged to recognize only certain privileges. 44. Smith, Civic Ideals, 215. 45. Ibid., 143. An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States, i Stat. 271 (1792). 46. James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608—1870 (Chapel...

...p. 11] and Congress has passed legislation in accordance with this power on numerous occasions. "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence...establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States" (May 8, 1792), known as the Militia Act of 1792, stated SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and...

...cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act ' more effectually to provide for the national defense, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the...organized them so as .to produce their full effect ; * * and whether a material feature in an improvement of it, ought not to be, to afford an opportunity...