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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Justice Joseph Story

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the People to resist and triumph over them."
 
--Justice Joseph Story
In his Commentaries on the Constitution (1833

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