MEMBER BLOG TAG: presidential uses of militia
| Tuesday, October 5, 2010 12:44PM | | | | Second Amendment & History | Tags: laws, guns, militia, presidential uses of militia, treason, insurrection
| | | | “The founding fathers” is a useful literary construct, but deceptive. There is no authoritative list of the “founding fathers,” and the revolutionaries who gained freedom and wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Second Amendment and the Militia Acts were a contentious bunch unified by a desire “to form a more perfect union” but with different ideas as to how to do it. Unlike the present political situation where one party wants the government to fail so corporations can rule, the founding fathers contended for their view but accepted majority rule.
It might be useful to consider what the founding fathers did. In 1786, three years after independence was won, before the Constitution was written, the first Congress met... | | | | | |
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