Technically, babs, I think that works the other way around. Master, servant... States made the Federal government as an instrument of their will, not the other way around.
Seems I remember a bible verse or Kipling verse about a servant when he reigns....
/johnny
Lot of ignorance here and with the politicians about the National Guard {and it’s National Guard, never national guards - they’re not warehouse watchmen}.
The National Guard is already under control of the states and its governors. It does not need federal authorization to do something, even something as stupid as this proposal by dumb-as-dirt Boxer.
National Guardsmen do not hang around the armory like fireman at the firehouse waiting for the next call from some stupid politician. They have real full-time civilian jobs like you do and train for real missions, from Special Ops insertions and fighter air strikes in Afghanistan to evacuation and rescue in a local flood.
Somehow it’s in too many people’s minds, including here at FR, that the Guard {not “guards”} is sort of like a constabulary day labor force ready to do the job that other well paid bureacracies can’t or won’t do, like guard the border, do drug searches, or guard schoolhouses.