ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Richmond, Virginia, June, 1820;

BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTIVE,

C. W. GOOCH, Adjutant General.

RICHMOND:

PRINTED BY SHEPHERD & POLLARD.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ARTICLE I.

Section 8.

The Congress shall have power

for calling

To provide for calling forth the Militia to exe- To provide cute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, forth the miand repel invasions:

litia.

for organiz

To provide for organizing, arming, and disci- To provide plining the Militia, and for governing such part of ing the mili them as may be employed in the service of the tia, &c. United States; reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

AMENDMENTS.

ARTICLE 2.

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the Right of the security of a free state, the right of the people to people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

ARTICLE 3.

keep and bear arms, &c.

be quartered

No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered No soldier to in any house without the consent of the owner; in any house nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed without by law.

during peace

sent, &c.