Government Defense Quotes
The sermon was so stirring that it was published in Pittsburgh and distributed throughout the Union.
This apparently is an operational principle in most representative democracies. Attacking the opposition is always easier and more effective than defending your own party’s position. Doing anything else, especially providing a non partisan, rasoned analysis, is the thing most to be avoided.
Note the phrase “well regulated militia.” This is the exact same phrase which the Founding Fathers chose to use in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights over a decade later. And in this amendment the right to bear arms is provided for the “well regulated militia” and not for individuals as the Supreme Court has ruled many times. This quotation shows that the phrase was not just drafted by the founders, but had a clear and established meaning of which they were aware. Many people think that the phrase did not have a known meaning at the time but this quotation shows differently as the Constitutions of all the States were available to and studied by the Congress and most educated people.
