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Quote from George Mason,


"That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State..."


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George Mason (more quotes by George Mason or books by/about George Mason)


(1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington

Source:

Within Mason's declaration of "the essential and unalienable Rights of the People," -- drafted by Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others, and later adopted by the Virginia ratification convention, 1788

Categories:

Arms, Guns, Militia

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