From Ulf < From a Danish associate
We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.
On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.
On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.
Is there a contest here?'
We desire and instruct you strenuously to oppose all encroachments of the American Congress upon the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the separate States; and every assumption of power, not expressly vested in them, by the Articles of Confederation. . . . And in particular we desire and instruct you to oppose any attempts which may be made by Congress to obtain a perpetual revenue, or the appointment of revenue officers. Were these powers superadded to those they already possess, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutions of Government in the different States would prove mere parchment bulwarks to American Liberty.
On May 30, 1783, Mason drafted a letter of instructions and warning to the Virginia General Assembly delegates on behalf of the Fairfax County Freeholders. He wrote:
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated Militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper Natural and safe defense of a free State...
-- George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington Source: Within Mason's declaration of the essential and unalienable Rights of the People, -- drafted by Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others, and later adopted by the Virginia ratification convention, 1788
