"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the
Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence
of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the
militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of
ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form
can admit of."
-James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
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