Dear Friend, As the season turns to summer, I have grown increasingly concerned that efforts to

ratify the Constitution will succeed.

has called a convention for

ratification and, if the state does become the ninth to ratify, the Constitution will have

the necessary support of the states and become the law of the land,

I am not alone, I believe, in asking how we can support a document that provides no

, which is much needed if we are to defend the interests

of the people. Here in Virginia, many

share my concerns.

They share my alarm at the possibility of a government founded on

This untested system of

will be cold comfort in the face of tyrannical

government. What is to stop a despotic

from abusing the power of

the

to raise a militia against our own people?