04-14-2018, 12:12 AM
Tench Coxe, a PA delegate to Constitutional Convention, published "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution" under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette (June 18, 1789):
Quote:As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
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