LewRockwell “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”
So reads Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.
Historically, that constitutional duty — to protect America’s states against invasion — has been the province of the president of the United States, the chief executive, who today is Joe Biden.
How did Biden’s predecessors do in discharging their duty to secure America’s borders?
During the War of 1812, President James Madison assigned the defense of New Orleans against an invading British army that had just burned the Capitol and White House to Gen. Andrew Jackson…
