Sorry dirtbag, but it does: Article II Section 2 - The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States...........

Now you can quote Jeffersons letters all day, (he was but ONE of the authors) but I'll stict to the wording of the constitution. Not something written 40 years later.

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