Quote:Did you come up with that during your conversation with Hamilton and Jefferson

 

Yes.

 

But it was Madison who put it to the People in #46:

 

<i>Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.</i>

 

Are you so foolish as to believe that the men who were adamant that the People should be armed SPECIFICALLY to combat the government, would in turn give the same government to right to deprive the People of that right? Balderdash.

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