Originally Posted by
chuckyt1
I think that one of the reasons the constitution was written, was so that the Government could be overthrown. I don't have the exact quote but Jefferson intimated that it would be required, every few hundred years or so. That's why they gave us the right to free speech, and the right to bear arms.
Full disclosure - I own no firearms and am not a member of the NRA. I do however, believe in the vision of our founders...
Sorry about the thread drift.
That was a Jefferson vision from the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution is a whole different animal and came about thru a series of complicated compromises between the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist.
To make a long story short on a Saturday night, trust me, you cannot conspire to overthrow the government. That's were the term, "
Clear and Present Danger" came from. Not just a good movie, but a judicial test, coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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