• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The first two paragraphs of paper number 28…you clearly haven’t read them then.

    THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. Our own experience has corroborated the lessons taught by the examples of other nations; that emergencies of this sort will sometimes arise in all societies, however constituted; that seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body; that the idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government), has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

    Should such emergencies at any time happen under the national government, there could be no remedy but force. The means to be employed must be proportioned to the extent of the mischief. If it should be a slight commotion in a small part of a State, the militia of the residue would be adequate to its suppression; and the national presumption is that they would be ready to do their duty. An insurrection, whatever may be its immediate cause, eventually endangers all government. Regard to the public peace, if not to the rights of the Union, would engage the citizens to whom the contagion had not communicated itself to oppose the insurgents; and if the general government should be found in practice conducive to the prosperity and felicity of the people, it were irrational to believe that they would be disinclined to its support.

    It’s literally saying that we just fought a war with a standing army, and that if we had one and shit went south the people will need to stand up to put it down.

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      9 months ago

      This is arguing in favor of the national government having the ability to mobilize forces. At the time, there was no standing army

      Again, I mentioned it being relevant today. The US government neither wants nor needs your help

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      9 months ago

      Great so the police and national guard fulfill that function. We can safely ban private ownership now since the need they expressed is fulfilled.