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As Samuel Adams wrote in 1768, " Even when there is a necessity of the military power, within a land, a wise and prudent people will always have a watchful and jealous eye over it ".
Even more forceful are the words of Elbridge Gerry, a delegate to the American Constitutional Convention, who wrote that "
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