"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was
formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, -
who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best
and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly,
but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and
neglecting the militia."
--George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying
Convention, 1788
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