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Charles Dick, for whom the Militia Act of 1903 was named.. The Militia Act of 1903 (32 Stat. 775), [1] also known as the Efficiency in Militia Act of 1903 or the Dick Act, was legislation enacted by the United States Congress to create what would become the modern National Guard from a subset of the militia, and codify the circumstances under which the Guard could be federalized.
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Dick was Chairman of the Militia Committee, [9] and sponsored the Militia Act of 1903 (the Dick Act). [10] This act codified the circumstances under which the National Guard in each state could be federalized, provided federal resources for equipping and training the National Guard, and required National Guard units to organize and meet the ...
Also called the Dick Act, for sponsor Charles W. F. Dick, the 1903 law updated the Militia Act of 1792, though it left unresolved the key question of how to compel service of the militia outside the borders of the United States, which did not fall under the constitutionally permitted uses of the militia "to execute the laws of the Union ...
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With the passage of the Militia Act of 1903, all state militia units were folded into the National Guard of the United States, largely turning the state militias from a state-funded and controlled force to a reserve component of the federal military. Revolutionary War Units: 1st Battalion, New Castle County, 1777
The National Defense Act of 1916, Pub. L. 64–85, 39 Stat. 166, enacted June 3, 1916, was a United States federal law that updated the Militia Act of 1903, which related to the organization of the military, particularly the National Guard. The principal change of the act was to supersede provisions as to exemptions. [1]