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is composed of free citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their power to the destruction of their own rights, or suffering others to invade them.

Samuel Adams, for example, argued, ''The militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no Danger of their making use of their power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.'''' Even some Federalist took that view. Tench Coxe, for example, believed that even without constitutional amendments the universal militia would block any federal oppression: ''the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of america from sixteen to sixty. . . . Who are the militia' are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his bosom.''

is one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which the citizen is accountable to God and his country.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote. . . that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. Samuel Adams

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