Historical Background

Embracing the 2nd Amendment while rejecting Weapons of War — Mass-causality Guns ~ Part 1

November 17, 2017

https://tinyurl.com/yb6jl4ec “Don’t Shoot” Assault rifles like the AR-15 and other military mass-causality weapons are not ‘guns’ under the 2nd Amendment’s definition as written in 1787, any more than machine guns (constitutionally outlawed in 1932), rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), cannons, missiles, and ICBMs. Rapid-fire, large-magazine assault rifles like the AR-15 are bomb-delivery systems. If the explosive power […]

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Constitutional Liberty and Arbitrary Powers ~ Joseph Warren, Boston, March 5, 1972

March 5, 2017

EDITOR’S NOTE: The text of this speech has many extremely long paragraphs — many as long as an entire page. For reading documents on-line, I find myself loosing the thread in the middle of such long unbroken text. For that reason, I have taken the liberty of breaking those super-sized paragraph in more easily readable […]

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Federalist Paper #28

December 1, 2012

The Federalist 28 Continued ~ The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered) Hamilton for the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. Our own […]

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Federalist #27

November 30, 2012

The Federalist 27 Continued ~ The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered) Hamilton for the New York Packet. Tuesday, December 25, 1787. To the People of the State of New York: IT HAS been urged, in different shapes, that a Constitution of the kind proposed by the convention […]

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Federalist Paper #26

November 28, 2012

The Federalist 26 The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered Hamilton for the Independent Journal. To the People of the State of New York: IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which […]

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Federalist Paper #25

November 26, 2012

The Federalist 25 Continued ~ The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered Hamilton for the New York Packet. Friday, December 21, 1787. To the People of the State of New York: IT MAY perhaps be urged that the objects enumerated in the preceding number ought to be provided for by the State governments, […]

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