The argument was made (c.f. Federalist Papers) that with protections a federal government would be OK.
I have come to understand that those that hate us take these texts in hand to discern how to ruin us. (E.g. Federalist 29; therefore, they've conduced a standing army, seek to disarm the people, and are isolating this army from the people by purges so as to make it willing to be hostile to them)
We had Articles of Confederation.
The argument was made (c.f. Federalist Papers) that with protections a federal government would be OK.
I have come to understand that those that hate us take these texts in hand to discern how to ruin us. (E.g. Federalist 29; therefore, they've conduced a standing army, seek to disarm the people, and are isolating this army from the people by purges so as to make it willing to be hostile to them)