I was watching Netflix yesterday and I saw they had Newsies

[conuly]

Which yay! but it turned out it was the Broadway Newsies not the movie Newsies.

After watching it, I don't think I like it as much, though admittedly it has been quite a while since I've seen the original full-out. I should do that so I can compare properly.

(Also, historical note, while fictional characters who happen to be involved in based-on-a-true stories is one thing, I'm really uncomfortable with fictional characters who have real world parents/families. I didn't know until last night that I felt this way, but now I do! If we can prove a certain person didn't exist, they shouldn't be there.)

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Comments

Re: Congressional approval (!)

[nodrog]

Now look, don't try to confuse an Internet discussion with facts.  That never turns out well. ;-)

I learned what I know long ago, and history may have been rectified since then.  Or, I might simply be (shh!) wrong.  But truly, I believe I’m right on this, going back to Madison vs the Anti-Federalists.  After the attempt by the British to hold them at bayonet-point, the States were determined not to allow it again - why “States’s militias” were formed, NOT under Federal control [%$#! you, Bobby Kennedy].  Washington DC would not be able to enforce by bullet, what was rejected by ballot…  in theory.  Again, practice turned out differently, but only by mischance, not design.  The United States were just that, referred to in the plural.

Re: Congressional approval (!)

[calimac]

The states had always had militias, back to the time they were colonies. These were the principal armed forces in the early US, as the Founders were allergic to standing armies, having been the victims of the British one.

But since the militias were the initial responders to any need for federal armed forces, for that reason they were susceptible to being called up until federal control and authority. And that's specified in the US Constitution, in two places, including the famous "Commander in Chief" clause, in Article 2 Section 2.

True enough, as you say, that "United States" was originally plural. Up until the Civil War, which changed it. But that meant only that most people considered themselves primarily citizens of their state, and only secondarily of the US. It was on those grounds that people like RE Lee felt obliged to go with their states under secession, even though they didn't think secession was a good idea, and even though they'd personally sworn oaths of loyalty to the federal government. And it was the fact that they'd taken this position that caused people to realize that considering the states as plural was not, on the whole, a good idea.

But despite all of this, the idea that the federal government was supreme over the states was a live and widely held notion, by such figures as James Madison and Andrew Jackson. True enough that some disagreed, but it was a hot dispute, not a generally accepted position.

As for the Anti-Federalists, they divided into 1) those mollified by the Bill of Rights; 2) those who grudgingly accepted the Constitution anyway; 3) those who were defeated at the polls and wound up ranting in the wilderness.

Re: Congressional approval (!)

[nodrog]

wound up ranting in the wilderness

I resemble that remark! *grin*

Thank you - this has been educational.