• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 hours ago

    I did not vote them in. AND they were elected and swore to uphold the Constitution, and they have broken that vow.

    BTW, bearing arms against the government is not only legal, it’s constitutional.

    The idea of the right to revolt was famously articulated in the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”

    The Declaration went on to argue that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.