Ted Cruz, the Times, and Guns

The New York Sun ^ | April 18, 2015 | The Editors

[marktwain]

.” It suggests the silliest such the idea is that the framers wanted to “preserve the possibility, or even encourage, the idea of armed rebellion against the government.”

They do not have a rational argument, so they resort to sarcasm.

[ez]

Ooh rah.

[FredZarguna]

The "subordinate government" Madison refers to here are the governments of the States.

So Madison actually sees Cruz's bet, and raises it: Madison had an expectation that not only would militias deter Federal tyranny, but that the State governments had a duty and obligation to rebel against the Federal government in extremis, and to raise their own militias for doing so.