State’s high court upholds the Hawaiian Spirit Law and quotes The Wire in apparent rebuke to US supreme court: ‘They the old days’
    • Rivalarrival
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      11 months ago

      Contemporary writings from a majority of the signatories do.

        • Rivalarrival
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          11 months ago

          The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”

          -James Madison, June 8, 1789, I Annals of Congress 434

          “I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”

          - George Mason, June 4, 1788, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention

          "A well regulated militia, composed of the Yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered as the bulwark of a free people.”

          • Alexander Hamilton

          Read also the Federalist papers, especially 29 and 46.