"Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...?
I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people,
except a few public officers." | Quote by: | George Mason
(1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington |
Source: | in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, June 16, 1788,
in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_
Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.425 (Philadelphia, 1836) |
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