{"id":4557,"date":"2018-05-02T15:33:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/the-second-amendment-first-principles-and-the-right-of-revolution\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:33:52","slug":"the-second-amendment-first-principles-and-the-right-of-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/the-second-amendment-first-principles-and-the-right-of-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Amendment, First Principles, and the Right of Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Trigger Warning! Likely to cause snowflake meltdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Edward J. Erler offers <a href=\"https:\/\/imprimis.hillsdale.edu\/the-second-amendment-as-an-expression-of-first-principles\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_campaign=second-amendment-first-principles\">one of the best explanations<\/a> of the Second Amendment I have ever read. Clear, scholarly, and right-headed. The folly of Justice Stevens is exposed.&#0160; An excerpt, with bolding added:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Furthermore, the Declaration specifies that when government becomes destructive of the ends for which it is established\u2014the \u201cSafety and Happiness\u201d of the people\u2014then \u201cit is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.\u201d <strong>This is what has become known as the right of revolution, an essential ingredient of the social compact and a right which is always reserved to the people.<\/strong> The people can never cede or delegate this ultimate expression of sovereign power. Thus, in a very important sense, <strong>the right of revolution (or even its threat) is the right that guarantees every other right. And if the people have this right as an indefeasible aspect of their sovereignty, then, by necessity, the people also have a right to the means to revolution. Only an armed people are a sovereign people, and only an armed people are a free people\u2014the people are indeed a militia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trigger Warning! Likely to cause snowflake meltdown. Edward J. Erler offers one of the best explanations of the Second Amendment I have ever read. Clear, scholarly, and right-headed. The folly of Justice Stevens is exposed.&#0160; An excerpt, with bolding added: Furthermore, the Declaration specifies that when government becomes destructive of the ends for which it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/the-second-amendment-first-principles-and-the-right-of-revolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Second Amendment, First Principles, and the Right of Revolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}