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  1. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In…

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  2. A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

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  3. The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

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