Amendment II

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." - Tenche Coxe, Feb. 20, 1788.

Friday, April 14, 2006

And this, before turning into the Usurpreme Court...

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Judge

Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,

Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)

Amendment II

Friday, April 14, 2006

And this, before turning into the Usurpreme Court...

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