STARGATE OREGON

leslemke@earthlink.net

This Page Last updated Tuesday, January 4, 2000

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel."

-- PATRICK HENRY of Virginia.
Virginia's U.S. Constitution
Ratification Convention


The United States Constitution
TEXT VERSION
The United States Constitution
INDEXED

"Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit,
proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."
- Abraham Lincoln

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The
strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep
and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government."

-- Thomas Jefferson
Proposal to Virginia Constitution, June 1776.

QUOTES FROM OUR FOREFATHERS
ON THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS