Question regarding a "well-regulated militia" and the security of a free state: [View All]

Since the second amendment explicitly states that the existence of a militia is to protect the security of a free state, and moreover the whole concept of a citizen militia, going back to ancient Rome, is that the republic can call upon this militia when it chooses, and as both Eisenhower and Kennedy federalized the state national guard in order to enforce Supreme Court decisions regarding civil rights issues -- could the president federalize these so-called militia groups and place them under the authority of the Pentagon and make them subject to military discipline? Could the President do the same with companies like Blackwater? Conscript all the mercenaries and make them all grunts and give them standard army pay?

Anybody know what the actual legalities are on this?