Quote Originally Posted by Destroyer of Hope
I quote from addmendment IX


and from the declaration of independence


Saying that the people have no right to abolish there governments in a last resort to restore freedom is going against almost all the ideas our government was founded on. Just because it is not listed in the constitution does not mean that the people have no right to it.
Read again - you have no legal right to use violence to abolish the government. Its know where in the Constitution.

Now according to the founding fathers of the United States you have a moral right to do so. This is what they were speaking of. These men so firmily believed in this principle that they were willing to sacrifice their lives, their families, everything they held dear to make it so. But they also realize tha they did not have a legal right to do so.


Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But 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
They were speaking of the moral duty of man - not the legal right to advocate violence.

It is interesting to note that these same men also advocated the Article section of the constitution alreadly mentioned - that the Congress will raise the militia to supress insurgection, rebellion and sedition.

And the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.