The2ndAmendment
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The prediction of this author have come to fruition, in fact, far beyond his dreams. Read the Anti-Federalist Papers, they reveal all the problems evident today.
Antifederalist Paper No.9
AntiFederalist Papers, Paper 9, Freedom Documents
Antifederalist Paper No.9
AntiFederalist Papers, Paper 9, Freedom Documents
We have said nothing about a bill of rights, for we viewed it as an eternal clog upon our designs, as a lock chain to the wheels of government-though, by the way, as we have not insisted on rotation in our offices, the simile of a wheel is ill. We have for some time considered the freedom of the press as a great evil-it spreads information, and begets a licentiousness in the people which needs the rein more than the spur; besides, a daring printer may expose the plans of government and lessen the consequence of our president and senate-for these and many other reasons we have said nothing with respect to the right of the people to speak and publish their sentiments or about their palladiums of liberty and such stuff. We do not much like that sturdy privilege of the people-the right to demand the writ of habeas corpus. We have therefore reserved the power of refusing it in cases of rebellion, and you know we are the judges of what is rebellion