Admiral Dewey was granted his title by
a special Act of Congress after the Battle of Manila. The officers
of the navy ranking with major-generals, brigadier-generals,
colonels, and so on, in the army, are rear-admirals, commodores,
captains, commanders, lieutenant-commanders, lieutenants, masters,
ensigns.
The Militia.--With but little opposition in the Constitutional
Convention, Congress was given the power to make provision for
citizen-soldiers as follows:--
Section 8, Clause 15. _To provide for calling forth the militia to
execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel
invasions._
Clause 16. _To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the
militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the
service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively the
appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia
according to the discipline prescribed by Congress._
Number of the Militia.
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