“Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize... the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.”

About Tench Coxe

Political Economist • American

Tench Coxe was an influential American political economist and delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He was a leading proponent of industrialization and economic nationalism in the early United States,...