3CC Continental Militia Network

....What is the Continental Militia Network?

CMN was the Internet project of the 3rd Continental Congress Department of Defense (3CC-DoD).  Designed to provide website linkage and email contact for the commanders, public affairs and recruiting officers of constitutional citizen militias, It is was affiliated and mutually supporting the Third Continental Congress.  The network is now freelance due to the fact that the 3CC has not re-convened for the last two years.

Leaders needed for major-unit commands: Contact the Network Coordinator

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Militia Duty: Defend, Co-operate, Prepare!

Constitutional Militias are commissioned by the 3CC, and most importantly, authorized by the Constitution of these united States and the Constitution of their individual States to operate in their particular state jurisdiction.

Militias in each state will be approved by the congress and ONE militia from each state will be recognized as the official Constitutional Militia of that State.

Maintaining Constitutional Militias is an important step in securing our nation from foreign and Domestic threats when 95% of the active-military troops of the U.S. are overseas, leaving our homeland wide open for attack.

The meaning of militia

The word "militia" is a Latin abstract noun, meaning "military service", not an "armed group" (with the connotation of plurality), and that is the way the Latin-literate Founders used it. The collective term, meaning "army" or "soldiery" was "volgus militum". Since for the Romans "military service" included law enforcement and disaster response, it might be more meaningfully translated today as "defense service", associated with a "defense duty", which attaches to individuals as much as to groups of them, organized or otherwise.

When we are alone, we are all militias of one. When together with others in a situation requiring a defensive response, we have the duty to act together in concert to meet the challenge. Those two component duties, of individuals to defend the community, and to act together in concert with others present, when combined with a third component duty to prepare to do one's duty and not just wait until the danger is clear and present, comprises the militia duty.

What distinguishes a militia from an army

• The authority for militia is any threat to public safety.
  

• Those active in militia are usually not bound for a fixed term of service, or paid for it.
  

• Those active in militia cannot expect arms, supplies, or officers to be provided to them.
  

• No one has the authority to order militia to surrender, disarm, or disband.
  

"Militia is not a dirty word. It is a concept worthy of respect. It is a synonym for the People. The Militia is not a gang. It is the core essence of the ultimate repository of the sovereignty of the American citizenry. If necessary, the Militia will marshall and deal with governments' goons, errant persecutors, public servants, and perfumed princes and princesses. That, for better or worse, is the life of the law. That is reality."

— Peter J. Mancus, Attorney at Law (California), 15 July 2004

"Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd."

— Jon Roland, 1976

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."

— Tench Coxe, 1788.

"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...all men capable of bearing arms..."

— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788

(either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).

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