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Militia powers are enumerated. See Article 1 Section 8 and the 2nd Amendment. Nothing in the Constitution about buying insurance for health care or otherwise. Not much about a number of things the gov does today, which are unconstitutional as all get out. And the “general welfare” clause the commies like to drag out, doesn’t mean what they attempt to infer it does. Madison and others of the founding generation interpreted it to mean limited and enumerated powers, not the leviathan that the Supes have created since the 1930s.

Oh, and by the way, a gov that can order you to possess a military grade rifle, is certainly NOT the government that can prohibit you from owning a military grade rifle - and mean full auto, baby.

"The construction applied... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States," and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof," goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to [the General Government's] power by the Constitution... Words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.