Just hold on a second.
In-frigging-correct. Please learn a little something about the use of the English language at the time it was written. All regulated meant at the time, is they are properly trained and equipped.
As taken from Johnsons Dictionary of the English Language. 1799
to REGULATE.
1.To adjust by rule or method.
2.To direct
Regulate seems to have meant the same back then as it does now.
As taken from "Citizens in arms:The Army and the Militia in American society to the War of 1812" by Lawrence Cress.
"Resolving "that a well-regulated Militia, composed of the gentlemen, freeholders, and other freemen, is the natural strength and only stable security of a free Government," the Maryland convention acted in December 1774 to reorganize its militia under a popularly elected officers corp. ...Six month later, in an effort to provide a source of manpower for the newly formed Continental army, Congress recommended that all states adopt the republican principles embodied in the Massachusetts militia structure. ...By early fall [1775] provincial assemblies in Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, and North Carolina had taken steps to comply with the congressional recommendations. - Cress, pp. 48-49
So they let EVERYONE in,huh.Didn't exclude anybody,did they?
Mabye I'm just thinking a little too modern here but wouldn't listing those who were allowed (or were mandated,yes all FREE men were mandated) to serve mean that those who were not listed could't?I/E Regulating who can and cannot serve.
Not for nothing,I would have thought that one supporting member would have a little more respect toward another. To try and prove a point with cuss words the suggestion that I learn a little about the english language and its use "back then" sounds a little 7 post troll-ish.