Gun Rights Are
Best Protected in the Articles of Confederation
These
words from the Articles
of Confederation (America’s original constitution which was illegally
abandoned) say it all when it comes to why the Articles are so superior to
protect the gun rights of the citizenry of the Anglo-American Patriot
States of the USA:
“…every
State shall always keep up a well regulated and
disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and
constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces
and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage...”
In
other words, the Articles of Confederation required all of the States
to keep up their own militia, so the nation as a whole and in its parts would
be protected from foreign invasion, domestic faction, or a national government
army run amok. Who were these militia?
The background for this rested in both English and colonial American
tradition. In colonial America all
able-bodied Anglo-American men of certain ages were members of the militia,
depending on the respective States rule. For example, here is how the 1792 Militia
Act defined the militia: “…each
and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States,
resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the
age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally
and respectively be enrolled in the militia…” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)
The
Articles of Confederation left the supreme power in the States to have an armed
Anglo-American patriot citizenry, and the States in the Articles covenanted to
maintain such.
In
contrast, when the Articles of Confederation were illegally abandoned, as a
condition of ratifying the Federal Constitution, the Anti-Federalists got added
to this Federal Constitution the Bill of Rights, which included the Second
Amendment. https://mises.org/wire/why-we-cant-ignore-militia-clause-second-amendment?fbclid=IwAR3J0KHdbBqZfLsm0egTshtNgbVU74q5jgkt0vNibmdrdVXxSQ0bFsD_b2w
provides helpful information on the Second Amendment:
“Gun-rights advocates often
fixate on the second half of the amendment, claiming that the phrase about a
militia is just something that provides a reasoning for the second phrase. Many
opponents of gun control even suggest that the only phrase here of key
importance is "shall not be infringed." … Looking at the debates
surrounding the Second Amendment and military power at the end of the
eighteenth century, however, we find that the authors of the Second Amendment
had a more sophisticated vision of gun ownership than is often assumed. Fearful that a large federal military could
be used to destroy the freedoms of the states themselves, Anti-Federalists and
other Americans fearful of centralized power in the US government designed the
Second Amendment accordingly. It was designed to guarantee that the states
would be free to raise and train their own militias as a defense against
federal power, and as a means of keeping a defensive military force available
to Americans while remaining outside the direct control of the federal
government…Patrick Henry mocked the idea that liberties
could be preserved by simply "assembling the people." Without locally
controlled, military might, Henry noted, federal force could destroy the
independence of the state governments. Similarly, George Mason concluded that
the "militia ... is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it."
Whereas
civil gun rights in the Federal Constitution rest upon a promise from the
supreme centralized Federal government not to infringe on State gun rights,
civil gun rights in the Articles of Confederation rest upon structural fact
that State citizen militias of States with supreme authority were a bulwark of
defense. An armed citizenry with a long
heritage of gun rights and no centralized Empire government is fitted to
protect gun rights. The Articles of Confederation best protect gun rights and
other rights because they put structures in place to maintain those rights,
whereas the Federal Constitution inadequately protects rights because its governmental
structure does not adequately support promises related to rights.
The Anti-Federalists have proved
correct in distrusting what the Federal Government would do if the centralized
Federal Constitution replaced the Articles: the Federal Government federalized
the State militias, erected a huge Federal standing army with outposts around
the world, created a society where most citizens do not own guns, and have
systematically been restricting gun ownership.
Furthermore, the Federal Empire has been bringing in more and more
foreign peoples (often illegally) with no tradition of gun rights or gun
ownership, and so little comprehension of the importance of gun rights.
Ironically, it was State militia that engaged the British army in the first battle of the War of Independence (at Lexington and Concord), and it can well be argued that “the Militia was the driving force behind that victory“ in the War, for the following reasons:
“It
was the main source of manpower supplied to the Continental army. Although not an
organized army in 1775, it did have a long standing
military tradition which enabled the colonists to build the army needed to
defeat the British in a relatively short period of time. There were tensions
between army officers and militia members who refused to join for various
reasons. This worked more to the rebel advantage because it enabled unattached
militia groups to work within the civilian sector fighting off British sympathy
in their individual colonies. And, they provided a reinforcement of soldiers,
when needed, with a quickness that the British could not match. A one
hundred and fifty-year tradition of citizen soldiers existing in almost every
town and hamlet in North America allowed for the quick advancement into a
regular army, ultimately to defeat the British, the most well
trained army in the world. And, the fact that farmers, themselves a
tradition in colonial America, were so influential in the militia movement,
they stood to gain the most from extricating the rule of the Crown, by eliminating
a perceived unfair tax. This possessed the militia soldier with more passion
and incentive to win the war than the common British soldier.” (see http://hartnation.com/the-colonial-militia-during-the-revolutionary-war/
).
It is time for us to work towards restoration of a confederated USA
of Anglo-American Patriot
States, under the Articles
of Confederation (America’s first constitution that was unadvisedly and
illegally abandoned), with America’s first national
flag (the Continental Colors or Grand Union flag) as the symbol of our
enterprise:
This
confederated USA can have partitioned out of the USA those liberal “blue” areas
in a sea of “red” areas that remain part of the USA, such as illustrated here:
In
order to reach this goal, the Anglo-American patriots of today can follow the
basic playbook of our patriot forefathers: create a network of Committees
of Correspondence of Anglo-American
patriots
in every State of the USA. When large enough in each State, these in turn can
elect a council/assembly of leaders, which in turn can send delegates to a
restored Continental
Congress, seeking a return to the Articles of Confederation and listing its
grievances with the Federal government.
The
centralized Federal empire over a “global nation” will fall, and the
confederated USA of Anglo-American
Patriot States, under the Articles
of Confederation, will rise in its stead. This confederated USA will be a
nation of and for the Anglo-American patriot people to God’s glory, not a
multi-cultural “global
nation” Empire that only really serves the interests of an elite few.
States’ Rights will be the victor, and the long struggle of Anti-Federalists
against all human odds will be vindicated.
Please
consider joining the struggle by joining your State’s Committee of
Correspondence: https://www.puritans.net/articles/State%20Committees%20of%20Correspondence%20by%20State.htm .
State organizers are especially needed.
Index
of Articles related to this Cause: https://www.puritans.net/articles/indexarticlesconfederation.htm
.