AMERICAN MILITIAMEN

George Washington, having lived under what he and his fellow Founding Fathers came to feel was the tyrannical rule of George III, had a clear comprehension of what a free nation of men would be. The first principle of this was the role of government -- and it was expressed firmly in our original documents not what government was to do, but what government would not be permitted to do. George Washington, while he knew from the experience of the Revolutionary War that a loose confederation of states would not work in forming and keeping a nation, and that a central entity was necessary. This federal government, however, was not to be and never would be sovereign; in George Washington's United States of America, the people -- the people -- are sovereign.

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