Did you know that for domestic affairs, the U.S. president holds power to deploy the military and National Guard without Congressional approval? Throughout our nation’s history, various presidential administrations have deployed military troops to manage domestic uprisings or large scale natural disasters. In 1807, Congress adopted the Insurrection Act in order to define the government’s — primarily the president’s — roles and responsibilities in these instances. What is the Insurrection Act? What is known as the Insurrection Act is actually a series of laws that empower the president to deploy military forces for domestic affairs. The laws give the president exclusive power to deploy troops in the event that a…