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In reply to the discussion: Gun Control? We Need Domestic Disarmament (Huffington Post) [View all]Kolesar
(31,182 posts)...Who or what were the framers of our government, that they should dare confirm and authorise such high-handed villanysuch flagrant robbery of the inalienable rights of mansuch a glaring violation of all the precepts and injunctions of the gospelsuch a savage war upon a sixth part of our whole population?They were men, like ourselvesas fallible, as sinful, as weak, as ourselves.
By the infamous bargain which they made between themselves, they virtually dethroned the Most High God, and trampled beneath their feet their own solemn and heaven-attested Declaration, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rightsamong which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They had no lawful power to bind themselves, or their posterity, for one hourfor one momentby such an unholy alliance. It was not valid thenit is not valid now. Still they persisted in maintaining itand still do their successors, the people of Massachusetts, of New-England, and of the twelve free States, persist in maintaining it. A sacred compact! A sacred compact! What, then, is wicked and ignominious?
William Lloyd Garrison
http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1832/12/29/on-the-constitution-and-the-union