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"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines. [3]
He was vilified by his political opponents for his role in the passage of the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and for his criticism of such biblical events as the Great Flood and the theological age of the Earth. As president, he discontinued the practice started by his predecessors George Washington and John Adams of proclaiming days of fasting and thanksgiving. He was a staunch believer in the separation of church and state.
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
STrawman, he of course had no position on something he didn't even know would ever exist. AND I don't see very many people wanting to own those items.
BUT a clear argument could be made, and in fact I do, that although the 2nd guarantees the right to bear arms, it doesn't guarantee the right to own anything that is available. Based on my other readings of Jefferson, I would say that if he were alive today he would agree with my assessment. I would also hope that Allie doesn't think anyone should be able to own said weapons.
Those would be considered "arms" I do believe.
Too late ...
Those would be considered "arms" I do believe.
You misunderestimate Allie. The right wing loon is strong in her.
Maybe that's where that too often neglected part about a well regulated militia kicks in."No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
Funny how you people forget they also left us a constitution which allowed us to amend it to fit our modern world.
Funny how you people forget they also left us a constitution which allowed us to amend it to fit our modern world.
I can't believe it. Truthmatters has actually made an intelligent post. Someone pinch me.
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
STrawman, he of course had no position on something he didn't even know would ever exist. AND I don't see very many people wanting to own those items.
BUT a clear argument could be made, and in fact I do, that although the 2nd guarantees the right to bear arms, it doesn't guarantee the right to own anything that is available. Based on my other readings of Jefferson, I would say that if he were alive today he would agree with my assessment. I would also hope that Allie doesn't think anyone should be able to own said weapons.
Too late ...
Those would be considered "arms" I do believe.
You misunderestimate Allie. The right wing loon is strong in her.
Too late ...
Those would be considered "arms" I do believe.
You misunderestimate Allie. The right wing loon is strong in her.
Batshit crazy, she is.
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Again, you attack a right "loon" while never saying anything about the idiots on the left, yet you claim that you are not a partisan hack? Take the big boy shoes off Bert, they don't fit yet and you just look silly trying to walk around in them.
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for the State of Virginia, June, 1776"
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
What was his postion on flame throwers, atomic weapons, LAWS rockets, chemical weapons and biological weapons?
Just wondering.
All should be legal. The word used is "Arms" not guns.
