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When The Resolution Of Enslaving America Was Formed In Great Britain, The British Parliament Was Advised By An Artful Man [sir William Keith], Who Was Governor Of Pennsylvania, To Disarm The People. That It Was The Best And Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them. But That They Should Not Do It Openly; But To Weaken Them And Let Them Sink Gradually, By Totally Disusing And Neglecting The Militia.

Whatever Power May Be Necessary For The National Government A Certain Portion Must Necessarily Be Left In The States. It Is Impossible For One Power To Pervade The Extreme Parts Of The U.s. So As To Carry Equal Justice To Them.

I Ask, Sir, What Is The Militia? It Is The Whole People Except For A Few Public Officials.

We Will Not Submit To Have Our Own Money Taken Out Of Our Pockets Without Our Consent; Because If Any Man Or Any Set Of Men Take From Us Without Our Consent Or That Of Our Representatives One Shilling In The Pound We Have Not Security For The Remaining Nineteen. We Owe To Our Mother Country The Duty Of Subjects But Will Not Pay Her The Submission Of Slaves.

That Elections Of Members To Serve As Representatives Of The People, In Assembly, Ought To Be Free; And That All Men, Having Sufficient Evidence Of Permanent Common Interest With, And Attachment To, The Community, Have The Right Of Suffrage, And Cannot Be Taxed Or Deprived Of Their Property For Public Uses, Without Their Own Consent, Or That Of Their Representives So Elected, Nor Bound By Any Law To Which They Have Not, In Like Manner, Assembled, For The Public Good.