U.S. Constitution
Debate Over the New Federal Constitution in 1788
Seven months before he became President of the United States,
George Washington commented on the anti-federalist faction "hostile to the new Constitution."
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"The minds of a certain portion of the community... are indefatigably striving to make the
credulity of the less-informed part of the citizens subservient to their schemes...
"They are clamorously endeavouring...
to work their own purposes upon terrified imaginations."
– George Washington (Sept. 7, 1788)
Credulity (noun): a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true
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The Second Amendment
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"A well regulated Militia being necessary
to the security of a free State..."
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It's now crucial that we focus on security,
the goal of the Second Amendment.
Article IV, Section 4:
The Domestic Violence Clause
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"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."
The U.S. Supreme Court said it's the people of the states
who are guaranteed this protection (Texas v. White, 1868).
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The United States shall protect us against domestic violence.
This constitutional provision obligates and empowers Americans
to protect each other from threats to their safety and survival.
Learn about it at DomesticViolenceClause.org,
the website by Michael Diamond, author of If You Can Keep:
A Constitutional Roadmap to Environmental Security.
What does Ben Franklin say about it?
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