{"id":118260,"date":"2026-08-14T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118260"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:17:44","slug":"118260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118260","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zbQDXLwrN5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=118256\">The Militia of the Sea<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe Militia of the Sea\u201d \u2014 MILESFORTIS\" src=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=118256&amp;embed=true#?secret=rROWxYzDcN#?secret=zbQDXLwrN5\" data-secret=\"zbQDXLwrN5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7195398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new scholarly article<\/a> argues that the\u00a0<strong>Marque and Reprisal Clause<\/strong> of Article I of the U.S. Constitution directly undermines the modern judicial claim that the Second Amendment extends only to weapons a single person can carry. The paper, published on SSRN in 2026, is the work of Professor. J. Goldstein.<\/p>\n<p>The article locates its constitutional argument in two clauses of Article I. The first, Article I, \u00a7 8, cl. 11, authorizes Congress to \u2018grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.\u2019 The second, Article I, \u00a7 10, forbids any state from keeping \u2018ships of war in time of peace\u2019 without congressional consent.<\/p>\n<p>Professor. Goldstein\u2019s reading of those two clauses is compact: a sovereign needed permission to keep a warship; a private shipowner did not. The Constitution, on this account, simply took cannon-armed private vessels as an existing feature of the world it was organizing, and the Marque and Reprisal Clause proceeded accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Militia of the Sea A new scholarly article argues that the\u00a0Marque and Reprisal Clause of Article I of the U.S. Constitution directly undermines the modern judicial claim that the Second Amendment extends only to weapons a single person can carry. The paper, published on SSRN in 2026, is the work of Professor. J. Goldstein. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118262,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118260\/revisions\/118262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}