> limit ownership of firearms Slavery limited, among other far more obvious things, access to firearms. > control speech to stop anti-american and pro-british

> limit ownership of firearms Slavery limited, among other far more obvious things, access to firearms. > control speech to stop anti-american and pro-british propaganda and the like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts In general and in specifics, not even the founding fathers agreed on the appropriate trade-off between security and personal liberty. Perhaps the one thing they did agree on is democratic self-governance and the rule of law.