*NDAA http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin681.htm
Quote from article: "where is the first State Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, or Attorney General to say, "Not in my State!"?
Where are the county sheriffs to say, "Not in my county!"?"
*Oath
Keeping at the Fall of the Berlin Wall – VideoEast German Army
Officer (and now American Oath Keeper!) Tells How the East German
Military Refused Unlawful Orders to Crush Protests, Stood Down, and Led
to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. ...
2nd Amendment: "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."
"I ask, sir, what is the
militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public
officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution
"The militia, when
properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men
capable of bearing arms;..." — "Letters from the
Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry
Lee or Melancton Smith).
"Who are the militia? Are they not
ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each
man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to
disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible
implement of the soldier, are the birth-right 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."— Tench
Coxe, 1788.
§ 1889.
The next amendment is: "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."
§ 1890.
The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons,
who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural
defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic
insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is
against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military
establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the
enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means,
which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the
government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the
citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the
palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral
check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will
generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable
the people to resist and triumph over them.2 And yet, though this truth
would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia
would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the
American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia
discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to
be rid. (COMMENTARIES
ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES; WITH
A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIES AND
STATES, BEFORE THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. BY JOSEPH STORY, LL.
D., DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.)
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
REPORT of the SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES
SENATE NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session
February 1982
" ...a core value
protected by the Second Amendment for "the people" was
"the Right of the people to alter or abolish"48
tyrannical government, as they had done a
decade before. ...
As Blackstone describes the
"natural right" of an Englishman to keep and bear arms, the
arms are for personal defense as well as resistance to tyranny. The two
are not always separable. After the Civil War, southern states began
passing "Black Codes," designed to limit the freedom of blacks
as much as possible.50 The
"Black Codes" often contained restrictions on firearm
ownership and possession.51 The
codes sometimes made it a crime for whites even to loan guns to blacks.52
A substantial part of the debate in Congress
on the Fourteenth Amendment was its necessity to enable blacks to
protect themselves from White terrorism and tyranny in the South.53
Private terrorist
organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, were abetted by southern state
governments’ refusal to protect black citizens, and the violence of
such groups could only be realistically resisted with private firearms.
When the state itself abets organized terrorism, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms against a tyrant becomes inseparable from the
right to self-defense....
the law establishes with the utmost clarity
that the militia is precisely what the panel says it is not, an
"amorphous body of the people as a whole."
Among the acts of the crown seen as oppressions
to be prevented from ever happening again were the Militia Acts of 1757
through 1763 authorizing British officials "to seize and remove the
arms" of colonial militias when they thought it necessary to the
peace of the kingdom.69
The American Revolution was triggered when
General Gage ordered troops to march from Boston to Lexington and
Concord to do just that.70
...The one thing that is absolute is that the
Second Amendment guarantees a personal and individual right to keep and
bear arms, and prohibits government from disarming the people...."
The Idea of Restraining the Legislative
Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered
For the Independent Journal.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
"...Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community
REQUIRE TIME to mature them for execution. An army, so large as
seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive
augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary combination
between the legislature and executive, but a continued conspiracy for a
series of time. Is it probable that such a combination would exist at
all? Is it probable that it would be persevered in, and transmitted
along through all the successive variations in a representative body,
which biennial elections would naturally produce in both houses? Is it
presumable, that every man, the instant he took his seat in the national
Senate or House of Representatives, would commence a traitor to his
constituents and to his country? Can it be supposed that there would not
be found one man, discerning enough to detect so atrocious a conspiracy,
or bold or honest enough to apprise his constituents of their danger? If
such presumptions can fairly be made, there ought at once to be an end
of all delegated authority. The people should resolve to recall all the
powers they have heretofore parted with out of their own hands, and to
divide themselves into as many States as there are counties, in order
that they may be able to manage their own concerns in person. ..." (emphasis
added)
Militia Laws for the Colony of New York:
In the links listed below are some of the Militia Laws and Broadsides that we
have found and transcribed that relate to the formation and regulation of the
Militia of the Colony of New York.
The
Battle of Athens, Tennessee As
Recently As 1946, American Citizens Were Forced To Take Up Arms As A Last Resort
Against Corrupt Government Officials.
