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I am placing a combination of a portion of the federalist papers with a modern poster from a-human-right-org. This excerpt is from an explanation by Alexander Hamilton:
“But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well-digested plan should, as soon as possible, be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate extent, upon such principles as will really fit them for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan, it will be possible to have an excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the defense of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.”

I note that this argument is that the population should be better armed than the army to prevent tyranny from taking form. The people should be allowed to defend themselves from the military as well as being at the service of the state for the general defense. The population are charged with their own defense. It was not the job of an official “police” or other individual.

 

I have a new project in mind…

Three of the framers of our Constitution spent time writing 85 explanations of the new concepts that would be the skeleton of our country’s government. Considering the attitude of the politicians in Washington DC at this time, it seemed appropriate to reconsider what the founders wanted with their efforts.
I have looked up the writings and noted that they are well written to an audience well read and accomplished in vocabulary. Sad to say, the average high school reader may have problems with a single sentence. Example:
“Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable–the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.” This is out of the 4th paragraph of the introduction to the writings where Hamilton is defining the scope of his work relative to the population at hand.
The project I have been contemplating is to rewrite these into a more palatable form that could be consumed by the present population and applied to the travesty that is now our government.