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Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns - Page 23
by Mark V. Tushnet - 2007 - 176 pages
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Thoughts for the times

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A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With ...

John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. XIII. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body...peace should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil...
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Journal, acts and proceedings, of the convention ... which formed the ...

United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...of liberty, and ought not to be violated. XVH. That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia, composed of the body...is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free slate. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided,...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. 13. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body...proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state; that «landing armies in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases,...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...never be re«trained but by despotic governments. 13. That a veil regulated militia, composed of tUe body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free statei that standing armies * time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous ю liberty; and that,...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...never be restrained but by despotic governments. 13. That a well regulated militia, composed of tlie body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and s»fe defence of a free state; that standing armies in time of peace, should be avoid «d, as dangerous...
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The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from ...

Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...composed of the or the mibody of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural '"'* and auci safe defence of a free state ; that standing armies,...peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty ; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the...
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An Inquiry Into the Importance of the Militia to a Free ..., Volume 40, Issue 1

William Hyslop Sumner - Massachusetts - 1823 - 90 pages
...institution, who, in the language of the bill of rights, proposed by the Virginia convention, consider " a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, as the proper, natural, and safe defence, of a free state?" Whether an officer, now in commission,...
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Supplement to The Revised Code of Virginia: Being a Collection of All the ...

Virginia - Law - 1833 - 604 pages
...one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. 13. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body...peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil...
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 56, Issues 1-2

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...keep and bear arms. That a well regulated militia, including the body of the people capable of bearing arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State. That the militia should not be subject to Martial Law, except in time of war, rebellion or insurrection....
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