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— Noah Webster"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe."
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When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.
— George Mason
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No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
— William Rawle
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