what did the militia act mandate
The Militia Acts were passed in response to the overwhelming U.S. losses at St. Clair's Defeat. The Constitution permitted Congress to provide for calling forth the militia, but it was understood at the time that the president could not do so on his own authority absent that statutory provision.ront page of a newspaper announcing the second Militia Act of 1792. The second Act, passed May 8, 1792, provided for the organization of the state militias. It conscripted every free able-bodied white male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company.