"IT WILL BE A DESIRABLE THING TO EXTINGUISH FROM THE BOSOM OF EVERY MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY, ANY APPREHENSIONS THAT THERE ARE THOSE AMONG HIS COUNTRYMEN WHO WISH TO DEPRIVE THEM OF THE LIBERTY FOR WHICH THEY VALIANTLY FOUGHT AND HONORABLY BLED. AND IF THERE ARE AMENDMENTS DESIRED OF SUCH A NATURE AS WILL NOT INJURE THE CONSTITUTION, AND THEY CAN BE INGRAFTED SO AS TO GIVE SATISFACTION TO THE DOUBTING PART OF OUR FELLOW-CITIZENS, the friends of the Federal Government WILL EVINCE THAT SPIRIT of DEFERENCE and CONCESSION for which they have hitherto been distinguished....WE OUGHT NOT TO DISREGARD THEIR INCLINATION, BUT, ON PRINCIPLES OF AMITY AND MODERATION, CONFORM TO THEIR WISHES, AND EXPRESSLY DECLARE THE GREAT RIGHTS OF MANKIND, (NOT MILITIA!), SECURED UNDER THIS CONSTITUTION."
- James Madison, Debates on the Bill of Rights,
House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, (8 June , 21 July , 13 , 18-19 Aug. 1789 Annals 1:424-50, 661-65, 707-17, 757-59, 766 [8 June]).
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POINT AND MATCH!
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PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT, YOU USURPING ILK!
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