If you want to understand the Constitution - its original, legal meaning - don’t rely exclusively, or even primarily on the Federalist Papers. You’ll want to read other federalists like James Wilson, Tench Coxe and John Dickinson, plus the leading Anti-federalists as well.
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
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Liberty can only exist with responsibility...Our responsibility to defend it.
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“Tyrants care nothing for discussions that are to end only in discussion. Discussions, which do not interfere with the enforcement of their laws, are but idle wind to them.”
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With an enforcement deadline looming, potentially affecting millions of stabilizing braces, the new ATF rule is - as the founders told us - a test or an “experiment of your disposition.”
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A free people doesn't wait on government to do the right thing. But most people seem to think that liberty is about convincing the government to stop doing the things it wasn’t supposed to be doing in the first place.
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March 1, 1781 - the Second Continental Congress put into effect the Articles of Confederation as the law of the land, making it the first Constitution for the United States. The Articles have been mostly thrown in the dustbin of history, but doing so skips over essential, foundational principles of the Founders and Old Revolutionaries.
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If they can violate your rights and get away with it - because they said so - you never really had any rights in the first place.
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When you put faith in government people, you’re betting against human nature.
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If we need a government permission slip to exercise our rights -- they aren't really rights.
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