For his part, Patrick Henry agreed that the provision granting power to Congress to call out the militia was a potentially fatal flaw in the document. "In this great, this essential part of the Constitution, if you are safe, it is not [because of] the Constitution, but [because of] the virtues of the men in government," he wryly observed. "If gentlemen are willing to trust themselves and posterity to so slender and improbable a chance, they have greater strength of nerves than I have."William N Grigg shows how the militia of We the People has been replaced by what the Founders feared.
This guy is such a good and observant writer...
[Via Ron W]
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Dam, that's some post, over there.
A right scholarly piece of work.
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