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The page has a mixed set of names: Krist Novoselic, Thomas Jefferson, 50 Cent, Ida B. Wells and the legal scholar Adam Winkler. The sourced lines include Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1892), on the freedman’s need for more than freedom, and Emerson’s 1847 poem about naming all the birds without a gun.

Three popular lines carry flags. The statement about not allowing subject races to possess arms, credited to Hitler, is disputed. The Massachusetts amendment credited to Samuel Adams is disputed, and the notes show it differs from what is documented in the state convention of 6 February 1788. A passage on arms discouraging and keeping the peace, credited to Thomas Paine, is marked misattributed.

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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of time press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless when necessary for the defence of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

Samuel Adams Disputed

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves.

Thomas Paine Misattributed

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