1st Glendale A "Crispus Attucks" Company 23/48
GLENDALE, ARIZONA
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson
Crispus Attucks is recognized as the first Negro and the first American
to die at the beginning of the American Revolution in the Boston Massacre.
He is the true definition of a hero and this Company of the Arizona Militia
is formed in his honor and with an identical goal - LIBERTY for all.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
National Militia Mission, Standards And Code Of Conduct
The U.S. Flag is being displayed
upside-down as a sign of distress and an acknowledgement
that the fundamental rule of
law - the Constitution - is under attack from extremist, left-wing,
anti-American individuals and
groups both within and outside the United States.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men
with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows,
and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege."
Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, 560 (1878)
"The congress of the United States possesses
no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns,
or police of any state: it belongs not to
them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property;
nor will the constitution permit any prohibition
of arms to the people."
Saint George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries
(1803), Volume 1, Appendix, Note D
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according
to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal
rights of others. I do not add 'within the
limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights
of the individual."
Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be
rummaged for among old parchments, or musty records.
They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the
whole volume of human nature by the
hand of the divinity itself; and can never
be erased or obscured by mortal power."
Alexander Hamilton
"The Constitution is not an instrument for
the government to restrain the people,
it is an instrument for the people to restrain
the government - lest
it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Patrick Henry
"A Well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Ninth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive
any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Fourteenth Amendment, Section One, U.S. Constitution
"A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential to the security of individual rights and the perpetuity of free government."
Article 2, Section 1, Arizona Constitution
"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself or the State shall not be impaired . . . "
Article 2, Section 26, Arizona Constitution
"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights."
Article 2, Section 2, Arizona Constitution
"The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise."
Article 2, Section 32, Arizona Constitution
"The legislature finds that . . . the citizens of this state have the right, under the Second Amendment to the
United States Constitution and Article 2, Section 26 of the Arizona Constitution, to keep and bear arms."
Title 12, Section 714 (B) (1), Arizona Revised Statutes
"The militia of the State of Arizona shall consist of all capable citizens of the state [between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years],
and of those [between said ages] who shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, residing therein,
subject to such exemptions as now exist, or as may hereafter be created, by the laws of the United States or of this state."
Article 16, Section 1, Arizona Constitution
"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power
to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind
pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment (Second Amendment) may be appealed to as a restraint on both."
William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America 125-26 (2d ed. 1829)
L I N K S O F L I B E R T Y
ORDER
YOUR COPY OF "SUPREME COURT GUN CASES" HERE
AUTHORED BY DR. STEPHEN HALBROOK, ATTORNEY
DAVE KOPEL
AND FELLOW ARIZONAN AND DEAR FRIEND ALAN KORWIN
The
Declaration of Independence
The
United States Constitution
The
Bill Of Rights
Constitutional
Amendments 11 thru 27
The
Arizona Constitution
Arizona
Revised Statutes
Liberty Organizations, Magazines, Etc..
Ranch
Rescue Arizona Chapter
KeepAndBearArms.Com
The
Tombstone Tumbleweed Newspaper
The
Constitution Society
The National
Rifle Association
National
Review Online
Reason Online
The
Declaration Foundation
The Federalist
Journal
The Heritage
Foundation
The
Federalist Society
Jews For The
Preservation Of Firearms Ownership
The Second Amendment
Foundation
Gun Owners Of
America
National
Concealed Carry
Citizens
Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Arizona State
Rifle And Pistol Association
The Second
Amendment Police Department
Required Reading - Select Legal Articles
May Require Adobe Acrobat Reader
U.S.
Court Of Appeals Fifth Circuit Decision In U.S. v. Emerson
Released October 16, 2001
Reaffirms That Second Amendment Protects
Individual Right
(text file format)
A
Primer On The Constitutional Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Professor Nelson Lund, J.D., Ph.D.
Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Potomac
Falls, Virginia, No. 7, June 2002
The
Second Amendment In The Nineteenth Century
David B. Kopel
BYU Law Review, p. 1359 (1998)
Rational
Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition
David B. Kopel
20 J. of Contemp. L. 381-417 (1994)
The
Right to Arms: Does the Constitution or the Predilection of Judges Reign?
Robert Dowlut
36 Okla. L. Rev. 65-105 (1983)
To
Preserve Liberty - A Look At The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Richard E. Gardiner
10 N. Ky. L. Rev. 63-96 (1982)
The
Right of the People or the Power of the State
Bearing
Arms, Arming Militias and the Second Amendment
Professor Stephen P. Halbrook
Valparaiso Law Review, Vol. 26, Number 1,
Page 131 (1991)
The
Embarrassing Second Amendment
Sanford Levinson
Yale Law Journal, Volume 99, pp. 637-659
A
Right of the People
Professor Eugene Volokh
California Political Review Nov/Dec 1998,
p. 23 (1998)
Recommended Second Amendment Legal Articles
The Federalist Papers
"The "Federalist" may fairly enough be regarded as the most authentic exposition of the text of the
federal Constitution, as understood by the Body which prepared & the Authority which accepted it. Yet it
did not foresee all the misconstructions which have occurred; nor prevent some that it did foresee."
James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 Feb. 1825, Writings 9:218--20
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;
since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if
these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
(Justice) Joseph Story, Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), Book III at 746, § 1858
"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no
law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's
enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. No one is bound to obey an
unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it."
16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
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