[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

June 2, 1784

Wow. Compared to this, the implicit acquiesce to such right inherent in the Second Amendment (or the Declaration of Independence) seems weak. I guess there is a reason they say, “Live free or die”—only if all other states could follow this example and say that governments can be overthrown and should be overthrown, should it ever become too oppressive (with the People having the sole power to determine when it has become too oppressive).