If President Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act to allow troops to assist or take part in law enforcement in America's most crime-ridden cities, it won't be the first time – or likely the last – that it has been used.
In the nation's earliest days, a pair of Founding Fathers even used troops to tamp down public anger over whiskey and taxes.
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