... rural communities. It was John Adams and other fellow Bostonians who called for the citizens to rise up and defend their liberty. To rally up this idea they took a couple notes from Algernon Sidney; Sidney stated that, "In a popular or mixed government the body of the people is the publick defense, and every man is arm'd and disciplin'd." What ... ownership of guns unnecessary. The anti-Federalist believed that every individual should be allowed to carry their own firearm in the case that if they were attacked they could be quick to defend themselves rather than have to wait for a long ...

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... neighboring states. One of the ways that the government tried to discourage this was by offering increased highway incentives for any states who maintained a minimum. The states were only too quick to volunteer to raise their minimums. The government also threatened to reduce the amount of federal money offered to the states for improvement of the highways. Obviously the states didn ... , when asked about the proposal said, "states should be left on their own," and added, "I'm not in favor of the federal government tying transportation aid to anything."(Tumulty 1) Representative Klug not...

• Word Count: 1887
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