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==Civil War==
==Civil War==
Title 10, Section 332 was enacted in 1861 at the request of President [[Abraham Lincoln]] to increase Presidential authority to use the militia and the regular army to suppress insurrections and enforce the laws. This law was the legal basis for waging the Civil War. This law allows the President to use federal troops on his own initiative and act on his own judgment without waiting for a request from a governor.
Title 10, Section 332 was enacted in 1861 at the request of President [[Abraham Lincoln]] to increase Presidential authority to use the militia and the regular army to suppress insurrections and enforce the laws. This law was the legal basis for waging the Civil War. This law allows the President to use federal troops on his own initiative and act on his own judgment without waiting for a request from a governor.
==Posse Comitatus Act==
Title 10, Section 333 was enacted in 1869 at the request of President [[U. S. Grant]] to empower him to use federal troops to suppress the [[Ku Klux Klan]] during [[Reconstruction]]. The original version of this law said that it was the duty of the President to use the armed forces or militia to respond to insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracies that deprive any portion or class of people their Constitutional rights and privileges when state authorities are unable or refuse to protect such people.
The Insurrection Act empowers the President, either upon his own initiative or at the request of a governor to use federal troops to address a variety of civil disturbances that could be provoked by a major terrorist attack. Sections 332 and 333 make it clear that it is up to the President to determine when and where to use federal troops to enforce the laws.
==See also==
==See also==