Dear Friend, As the season turns to summer, I have grown increasingly concerned that efforts to
ratify the Constitution will succeed.
has called a convention for
ratification and, if the state does become the ninth to ratify, the Constitution will have
the necessary support of the states and become the law of the land,
I am not alone, I believe, in asking how we can support a document that provides no
, which is much needed if we are to defend the interests
of the people. Here in Virginia, many
share my concerns.
They share my alarm at the possibility of a government founded on
This untested system of
will be cold comfort in the face of tyrannical
government. What is to stop a despotic
from abusing the power of
the
to raise a militia against our own people?