Dav
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Article 1 said:The Congress shall have power
[...]
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
Obviously, the Founding Fathers had no idea that airplanes would ever exist, so there is no mention of an Air Force in the Constitution, even though it mentions both an Army and a Navy.
Does this mean that keeping an Air Force without amending the Constitution to allow such is unconstitutional? When I learned about the Constitution in grade school, the Air Force was frequently cited as an "implied power" in the Constitution, since the Constitution makes rules for a military and since the Founders couldn't foresee the importance of airplanes. I'm especially interested in how strict Constitutionalists view this issue.