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What the Founding Fathers expected of Americans in case of a Federal Coup
by Founding Father James Madison
(With key passages in ALT TEXT)
by Founding Father James Madison
(With key passages in ALT TEXT)
![What the Founding Fathers expected of Americans in case of a Federal Coup - By James Madison
The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms.
This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than [3 million]. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to [more than 56 million] citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops.
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole.
But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it.
Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
What the Founding Fathers expected of Americans in case of a Federal Coup
by Founding Father James Madison
(With key passages in ALT TEXT)
by Founding Father James Madison
(With key passages in ALT TEXT)
They had a pretty good idea, so they came up with a contingency plan:
June 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
They had a pretty good idea, so they came up with a contingency plan:
Ooh, that's going in my collection. Here is the example I've been using until now; an unmodified tweet from Tass.
June 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Ooh, that's going in my collection. Here is the example I've been using until now; an unmodified tweet from Tass.
This American Terrorist specializes in illegally assaulting journalists.
June 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This American Terrorist specializes in illegally assaulting journalists.
and here's what our Founding Fathers said to do about it.
June 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
and here's what our Founding Fathers said to do about it.
I defer to James Madison:
June 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I defer to James Madison:
'Atlas Shrugged' Character made manifest by caricature Administration.
June 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
'Atlas Shrugged' Character made manifest by caricature Administration.
Bonus, here's a terrorist caught in the act of abduction.
June 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Bonus, here's a terrorist caught in the act of abduction.
