Reply #73: Where Do You Find Me In Disagreement With the View The Right Is Individual, Sir?

[The Magistrate]

That a rationale for acceding to the right was given by the Framers is just as true: it is, after all, something exceptional for a government to contrive a situation in which the populace may be able to successfully rebel, and the giving of a reason for the extraordinary act is to be expected. That the rationale given is in present political and social circumstances a dead letter is obvious to anyone who seriously considers the question, without allowing the exercise to be blurred by a sentimental and romantic attachment to violence.