In his 4th speech during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry made the case that the constitution was being sold as a response to dangers that didn’t truly exist - but instead created an even greater one, consolidation.
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You can't protect the Constitution and your liberty by picking the lesser of two evils. You have to follow the wisdom of Gouverneur Morris and so many others in the founding generation: Draw a line in the sand.
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Using the wrong strategy to defeat government infringements can often cause more damage than doing nothing at all. And this is exactly what has been happening in the so-called “2nd Amendment Sanctuary'' movement. With the latest defeat coming in court in Yamhill, County Oregon.
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The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.
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The bottom line is this law was intended to stop state and local police from working with the feds to enforce federal gun control. The report reveals it's doing exactly that.
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Living under the largest government in history is not the “land of the free,” and it’s not even close. But how did things get like this? Here are the top-5 reasons - the primary drivers of the monster state today.
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Creators always have the right to limit their own creations.
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John Adams warned us that government power is like a deadly disease. It's "like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour."
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Gerry was an American revolutionary, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the Constitution but refused to sign the document and campaigned against its ratification
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To be sure, the history of gun regulations is complex, so I don't mean to be definitive. But I'm not seeing conclusive evidence that public carry was widely prohibited (as opposed to being regulated) in the relevant period. And without that evidence, the majority's conclusion seems sound.
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