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incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what
it will be to-morrow.  Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that
be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?"  {V}{FF}{LAW}
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James Madison, Federalist Paper 62:  "To trace the mischievous effects of a
mutable government would fill a volume. I will hint a few only, each of which
will be perceived to be a source of innumerable others."  {V}{FF}
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James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, 8 June 1789:  "The right of the people
to keep and bear... arms shall not be infringed.  A well regulated militia,
composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most
natural defense of a free country..."
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James Madison:  "Resistance to tyranny is service to God."
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Joel Barlow:  "It is because the people are civilized, that they are with
safety armed."
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John Adams, 1771:  "It is not only [the juror's] right, but his duty, in that
case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement,
and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
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John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government of the USA, 471
(1787-88):  "Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual
discretion...  in private self-defense..."
<BR> [Contrast the above with Attorney General Janet Reno's statement:
"Gun registration is not enough.  I've always proposed state licensing...
with some federal standards."
as reported by the Associated Press and by ABC on 10 December, 1993.]
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John Adams, letter to Jefferson:  "This would be the best of all possible
worlds, if there were no religion in it."
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John Adams, letter to John Taylor:  "The priesthood have, in all ancient
nations, nearly monopolized learning... And since the Reformation, when or
where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE
INQUIRY? [sic] The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the
most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and
applauded.  But touch a solemn truth in collusion with dogma of a sect, though
capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a
nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your
face and eyes."
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John Adams:  "It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the
judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgement, and conscience."
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John Adams:  "We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest."
<HR>
John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, (10 days before his assassination):
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the
American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his
plight."
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John Hospers:  "By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of
personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments ... The
major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have
been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments,
as a deliberate policy of those governments -- that is, by the official
representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity."
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John Locke, 1632-1704; Second (?) Treatise Concerning Civil Government:
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"...every Man has a Property in his own Person.  This no Body has any Right
to but himself.  The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may
say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens
uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is
the Preservation of their Property."
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Government "can never have a Power to take to themselves the whole or any part
of the Subjects Property, without their own consent.  For this would be in
effect to leave them no Property at all."   .... Rulers "must not raise Taxes
on the Property of the People, without the Consent of the People, given by
themselves, or their Deputies."
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"'Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies;
other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that.  For where-ever
the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the
Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of
to impovrish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands
of those that have it:  There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those
that thus use it are one or many."
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"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything
which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
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"... whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property
of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put
themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved
from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God
hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence.  Whensoever therefore
the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society, and
either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves,
or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties,
and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power,
the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves
to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty."
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John Locke, "True end of government", late 1600's; chapter 28 "Of Tyranny".
202. Wherever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's
harm; an whosoever in  authority exceeds the power given him by the law, and
makes use of the force he has under his command to compass that upon the subject
which the law allows not, ceases in that to be a magistrate, and acting without
authority may be opposed, as any other man who by force invades the right of
another.  This is acknowledged in subordinate magistrates.  He that hath
authority to seize my person in the street may be opposed as a thief and a
robber if he endeavours to break into my house to execute a writ,
notwithstanding that I know he has such a warrant and such a legal authority
as will empower him to arrest me abroad.  An why this should not hold in the
highest, as well as in the most inferior magistrate, I would galdly be
informed....
<HR>
John Maynard Keynes, `The Economic Consequences of The Peace':  "By a continuing
process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an
important part of the wealth of their citizens.  There is no subtler, no surer
means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of
destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to
diagnose."
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John Maynard Keynes, `The Economic Consequences of The Peace':  "Economic
privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the
outside world cares little.  Physical efficiency and resistance to disease
slowly diminish, but life proceeds somehow, until the limit of human endurance
is reached at last and counsels of despair and madness stir the sufferers from
the lethargy which precedes the crisis.  Then man shakes himself and the bonds
of custom are loosed.  The power of ideas is sovereign, and he listens to
whatever instruction of hope, illusion, or revenge is carried to him on the
air."
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John Maynard Keynes, `The Economic Consequences of The Peace':  "It is
historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand."
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John Maynard Keynes:  "If governments should refrain from regulation ... the
worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud upon the public can
be concealed no longer."
<HR>
John Trenchard and Walter Moyle:  "It's the misfortune of all Countries, that
they sometimes lie under a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms
against the ambition of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own. If
those in government are heedless of reason, the people must patiently submit to
Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; which if they are enabled to do, they
shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for
that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and
a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of
it."
<HR>
John W. Whitehead, `The Second American Revolution':  "In recent years we have
witnessed numerous marches on Washington in which one group or another has
demanded new "rights." Frequently, such rights have not meant freedom from
state control, but rather entitlement to state action, protection, or subsidy.
In the process of yielding to the "will of the people" and creating new rights,
the state invariably enlarges itself and its bureaucracy.  Each new right seems
to demand a new agency to guarantee it, administer it, or deliver it."
<HR>
Josiah Quincy (1774):  "Under God we are determined that, wheresoever,
whensoever, or howsoever, we shall be called upon to make our exit, we will die
freemen."
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Judge Carlos Bea:  "It is not now, nor was it ever the law, that before
submitting to a lawful arrest, a fleeing felon is entitled to a fair
fistfight."
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Justice Hugo Black, Columbia University's Charpentier Lectures (1968):  "The
public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to
the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges' views of
fairness, reasonableness, or justice.  I have no fear of constitutional
amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by
judges under the guise of interpretation."
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Justice Hugo Black:  "... any broad unlimited power to hold laws
unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the
`conscience of our people' ... was not given by the Framers, but rather has
been bestowed on the Court by the Court."
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Justice John M. Harlan, US supreme Court, 1895:  "We must hold firmly to the
doctrine that in the courts of the United States it is the duty of juries in
criminal cases to take the law from the court, and apply that law to the facts
as they find them to be from the evidence."
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Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead vs. United States, United States supreme
Court, 1928:  "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent . . .  the greatest
dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning
but without understanding."
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Justice Miller, US supreme Court, Loan Association vs. Topeka, 20 Wall (87 US)
664 (1874):  "To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of a
citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals. . . is none
the less robbery because it was done under the forms of law and is called
taxation."
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, US supreme Court, Horning vs. District of
Columbia, 138 (1920)(or 1902?):  "The jury has the power to bring a verdict in
the teeth of both law and fact."
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Justice Thurgood Marshall, US supreme Court:  "The most efficient form of
government is a dictatorship."
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Justice William O. Douglas:  "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does
oppression.  In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged.  And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of
the darkness."
<HR>
Ken Konecki on Usenet, on 27 Jul 1992:  "The 2nd amendment was never intended
to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms'.  If it had, there would have
been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not
be infringed.'"
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Laurence Tribe, Harvard law professor:  "... the highest mission of the supreme
Court, in my view, is not to conserve judicial credibility, but in the
Constitution's own phrase, `to form a more perfect union' between right and
rights within that charter's necessarily evolutionary design."
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Leo Masters:  "I do not feel, based on my studies, that the government has
written any mysterious statutes to intentionally fraud or extort anything from
the citizens. I do feel that it is a classic case of adopting customs during a
period when a lot of legislation was taking place changing the course of life
in the United States.  The combination of illiteracy between government and
citizens just followed these customs.  We have transpired into 50 years of
chaos and confusion which is only going to get straightened out through a
series of effective and well set cases in the courts."
<HR>
Leroy Pyle on Assault Rifles:  "You didn't hear Elliot Ness whining about Al
Capone's machine gun."
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Lord Henry Brougham, `Present State of the Law':  "The whole machinery of the
State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in
bringing simply twelve good men into the box."
<HR>
Louis Rukeyser, host of Wall Street Week:  "It's anti-American.  It's
anti-growth.  It's anti-success.  It's anti-upward mobility.  It isn't a tax
cut ... it's a scam."
<HR>
Luke 16:13 :  "Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
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Lysander Spooner (1808-1887):  "That no government, so called, can reasonably
be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any
longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
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Lysander Spooner:  "