"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..." | by: | 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 |
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