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Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the RIGHT
of THE PEOPLE to KEEP and
BEAR ARMS, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
(Compare and contrast "the people" in the 2nd and 4th Amendments and tell me that the 4th pertains to the militia and not the whole body of people in America. You Marxists can't have it both ways! - tha malcontent)
Amendment IV
The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(The 9th and 10th Amendments SEAL the Bill of Rights to THE PEOPLE! Now take your anti-gun agenda and move to Russia or China! - tha malcontent)
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by
THE PEOPLE.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
THE PEOPLE.
(The Bill of Rights) | (US Constitution) | (Declaration of Independence)
(Here are some quotes relating to the subject of our natural rights such as "the people's" 2nd Amendment "right" to "keep and bear Arms". - tha malcontent)
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them.... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and institute new Government...
� Declaration of Independence - 04 Jul 1776
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army."
"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the
blood of
tyrants and patriots alike."
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
��Laws that forbid the carrying
of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit
crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the
assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an
unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.��
� Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes
and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
��No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).��
� Draft Virginia Constitution (with Jefferson's note added), 1776. Papers 1:353
� Thomas Jefferson
��A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.��
��[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.��
� James Madison, The Federalist Papers (No. 46).
��And that the said Constitution be never 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; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.��
� Samuel Adams, Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788
"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
� Samuel Adams
Little more can reasonably be aimed at,
with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and
equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.
� Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
Papers (No. 29).
��...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.��
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!"
� Alexander Hamilton
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
� Benjamin Franklin
��Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined��
��The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.��
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!"
��Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ... If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?��
� Patrick Henry
��I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.��
��To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave
them.��
� George Mason
��To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess
arms, and be taught alike, especially when
young, how to use them...��
� Richard Henry Lee, 1787
"The 2nd Amendment is the single most important vehicle in which the individual in a free society can protect their
freedoms. Without this ability, the remainder of the Constitution is unenforceable by the
people, which would eventually lead to tyranny from an
unregulated and unrestrained
government."
"The greatest threat
to the freedoms that our Constitution affords us as a people,
is an uniformed and willfully ignorant
electorate."
"If ignorance and apathy were commodities, America would have an unlimited source of wealth in its people."
"William Jefferson Clinton says "most Americans support more hand-gun restrictions". That's nice, there was a day in this country when most Americans supported Blacks being slaves...
It didn't make it right!"
� tha malcontent, 2000
��Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of
Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States��
� Noah Webster, 1888
��No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them.��
� A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779
��We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts �
not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the
Constitution.��
� Abraham Lincoln
��The right of self-defense is the first law of
nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ...
and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.��
� St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803
"'[T]he people' seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the Constitution is ordained and established by 'the people of the United States.' The Second Amendment protects 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,' and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to 'the people.' See also U.S. Const., Amdt. 1 ('Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble') (emphasis added); Art. I, 2, cl. 1 ('The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the people of the several States') (emphasis added). While this textual exegesis is by no means conclusive, it suggests that 'the people' protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community."
� U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (The Supreme Court - 1990)
��Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government�s purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding��
� Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
��Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.��
� Mahatma Ghandi
��In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own
arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.��
� Aristotle
��Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -
ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns
doesn't serve the State.��
� Heinrich Himmler
��The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so
doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non ["something essential" lit. "without which not"] for the overthrow of any sovereignty.
So let's not have any native militia or police.��
� Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938
"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction."
� Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
��We cannot be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.��
� William Jefferson Clinton, USA Today, 3/11/93 page 2A
��When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of
Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit
it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
(DemocRATS
disarming their slaves! - tha malcontent)
� William Jefferson Clinton, 3-22-94
��Four out of five politicians surveyed
prefer unarmed, ignorant peasants.��
� Unknown
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