Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Our Last Best Hope

 If everything we respected is undeserving of that respect, the whole constitutional structure of representative government, balance of power, the constitutional power of the military as a last-ditch safeguard against tyranny and oppression, even genocide, cannot function, what choice do we have? [More]

Who was it Paul Revere was appealing to?

How about a Militia of "the whole people," the ones the Founders actually considered "the last-ditch safeguard against" oppression, as opposed to a standing army?

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