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I could see somebody thinking in 1793 that a formal army and navy would be unnecessary due to individual State militias that could presumably rally together if there was an international threat to the United States (of Earth).

But to be that naive by 1893? This was three decades after the American Civil War. If you let the States handle their own militias, with the promise that they would work together if needed, you'd have all of the Confederate militias conveniently rallying together to reinstate slavery. Then it would be a question of whether or not all of the Union States would do the same or not.