Miller v. Chafee

TAVARES, District Judge.

The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8, provides that the Congress shall have power “to raise and support Armies”; and to “provide and maintain a Navy.” Article 2, Section 2 provides that “the President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; * * Without attempting to trace the historical evolutions, the *1345powers to raise and maintain Armed Forces have been exercised to some degree almost continuously since the founding…