"An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed.
Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain,
the British Parliment was advised by an artful man, 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 weaken them, and let them sink gradually,
by totally disusing and neglecting the militia."
— George Mason
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