{"id":419,"date":"2008-06-27T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T15:51:10","slug":"samuel-adams-ostensibly-on-the-heller-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Adams, (Ostensibly) on the Heller Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;<strong>And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress<\/strong> to infringe the just liberty of the press,&#160; or the rights of conscience; or <strong>to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms<\/strong>; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense 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.&quot; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.liberty-tree.ca\/quote\/samuel_adams_quote_b683\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Adams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emphasis mine.&#160; Apparently, Adams never envisioned liberal judicial activists.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Samuel Adams,Supreme Court,Second Amendment,gun rights,US Constitution[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press,&#160; 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 necessary for the defense of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-judiciary","category-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}