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- Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson
- The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local… — James Madison
- I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison
- The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton
- For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison
- there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison