That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize
Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of
conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
-- Samuel Adams, in "Phila. Independent Gazetteer", August 20, 1789
Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of
conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...
-- Samuel Adams, in "Phila. Independent Gazetteer", August 20, 1789
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- The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people
of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms.
Samuel Adams During Mass' Constitution ratification... - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others... - The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud
themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and
liberal policy-
a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty... - Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United
States as our fathers made it inviolate.
The people of the US are the rightful masters both... - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging... - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to... - A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall... - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to... - The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is
not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers...
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warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of
resistance?
Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be... - The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse
every time Congress meets
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Will... - The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be
properly armed."
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Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184... - You [should] not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will
convey if properly administered,
but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the... - Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies
to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-
and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United...
