To ensure the people were armed and could resist the government if it became a tyranny.
To further that goal all abled bodied men were part of the unorganized m*****a. States, counties, cities, towns and other groups formed organized m*****a units. And those included, infantry, cavalry and artillery units. Even naval m*****a along the seacoasts and on the Great Lakes. Each m*****a designed their own uniforms. Those m*****as either supplied their own weapons or the local government or some rich m*****a members bought them. Yes, even the artillery guns were privately owned.

That is in part why the Civil War got off to such a fast start with all the various m*****as* joining either the Union or Confederate Armies as volunteer troops. The Union army also had units of "Regulars". All those uniforms caused a lot of "friendly fire" incidents in the early battles. Later in the case of the union forces the Regulars wore all dark blue, volunteers wore dark blue over light blue and some special units wore green. Though some units held on to their own uniforms as long as they could.

*Though many of them were little more than social clubs who only practiced marching and drilling. As combat troops, they were mostly a confused, armed mob. Western troops of the Union and many Confederate troops were good individual fighters due to hunting etc. but not much good in coordinated fighting until they learned the hard way. Then add in that the officers only knew the Napolianic and earlier style of formation fighting and mostly kept it up until the end was largely responsible for the awful casualty rates. 2% of the total population of both sides died = 620,000 of just over 31million population on both sides, including s***es.

The world is rethinking it's future with Trump in the equation. Watch the vid for context.

Australia’s former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that former US President Donald Trump was like a 12-year-old boy in awe of his hero whenever he met Russia’s Vladamir Putin.
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Speaking on Australian broadcaster ABC’s Q+A, Mr Turnbull said that Mr Trump’s possible return to the White House posed a “terrifying” threat to democracy, because of his embrace of autocratic leaders.

"He is attracted to dictators and tyrants like [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un and [Chinese President] Xi Jinping and he threatened to undermine or pull out of America’s longest standing alliances,” Mr Turnbull said, referring to Mr Trump’s recent threat to pull out of NATO.

The former prime minister, who was in office when Donald Trump first took office in 2017, said he had not bowed to Mr Trump’s pressures to “suck up” to him, as other leaders had.

During their overlap as leaders of their respective countries, Mr Turnbull said he had seen Mr Trump with Russia’s President a few times.

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year-old boy who goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. My hero!” Mr Turnbull said, calling the reverence shown “creepy”.

"What if Donald Trump forces Ukraine to surrender to Putin? What if Donald Trump pulls out of NATO? Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of NATO,” Mr Turnbull continued.

"Donald Trump stood up in front of an audience and he said to an unnamed European leader, if you don’t spend more money on defence I’m going to encourage Putin to have a go at you. That’s more or less what he said.”

Mr Turnbull said Australia would have to get used to the idea that the United States was no longer aligned in its values as it was a few decades ago.

“The scary thing is that for countries like Australia and many European countries, we may find ourselves not dealing just with two autocracies in Russia and China, but what is Trump’s America going to look like?” Mr Turnbull said. “This is a guy leading a party that is no longer committed to democracy as we understand it.”

In my opinion they are all sold out, the graft of the Biden family is probably somewhat common in DC and that is why so many there remain quiet on the issue. Don't for a moment think that the Democrats have any more integrity than the Republicans, both parties play in the swamp and both enrich themselves through the power of their government positions.

That is the problem with our government and that is exactly the reason that Trump came to power and continues to exercise such influence on the Republican Party because the base is tired of a government that is not responsive to their needs and the futures of their children.