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"Elbridge Gerry"
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
