Taking a break until March 9th

I will not posting anything new as I will be out of town until the 8th. I will pick back up on the 9th. Depending on how my trip goes, I may be reporting some very interesting news and updates. I am meeting with some people who are of interest to me and what goes on here at Patriot's Corner. I am not at liberty to say anything else for now.

I leave you with Alexander's Essays for today from the Patriot Post. Today is about the Second Amendment and McDonald v. Chicago.

Second Amendment -- Still 'The Palladium of Liberties'

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, March 4, 2010

This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, the next test case for the Second Amendment, which will determine if Chicago's onerous gun restrictions are in violation of the Constitution's plain language prohibition of such regulations by states and municipalities.

The High Court should find that the gun restrictions in Chicago, and by extension, those in any other state, are in direct violation of the inherent rights of the people "to keep and bear arms."

"The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. ... The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition." --James Madison


James Madison's words regarding the "ultimate authority" for defending liberty (Federalist No. 46) ring as true today as in 1787, when he penned them.

Likewise, so do the words of his appointee to the Supreme Court, Justice Joseph Story, who wrote in his 1833 "Commentaries on the Constitution," "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." Continue reading

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