For the Record: One More Time for the Second Amendment

This is a theme I keep recycling a little, but I felt this version came out extra-pithy, and also it's got a Boebert malapropism in it.

No, they were being pressured by slaveholders who threatened to tank the whole project of the Constitution if Madison didn't give in on this one stupid gun thing. Madison thought the need for a strong central government was so great he gave in to the blackmail.

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Not that the founders, speaking firmly, weren't some of them slaveholders too, as they certainly were, but it's still important that Virginians Washington, Jefferson, and Madison all agreed that slavery was a horrible crime. They were kind of like mythical Franklin Roosevelt saying, "Now make me do it," but unfortunately nobody did. Whereas those other Virginians Patrick Henry and George Mason were really explicitly freaked out by the possibility that Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, among others, might just up and ban slavery outright (as indeed they did, not that long afterwards) and before you knew it start helping their African property to escape from servitude

They were determined to make sure the new government would be strong enough to be able to prevent rebellions like that from getting anywhere.

Exactly the opposite of what loonies like Boebert claim the 2nd Amendement is supposed to do.

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"Expedition" must have been the word she was hunting for.

Imaginary Madison: "Let's make sure state militias are well armed so they have a fair chance to overthrow me when I'm president."

Real Madison: "OK you can have your slave patrols but only if we get to use them to put down a whiskey tax revolt."

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