Ken Cuccinelli: “Retrofitting power plants to meet the standards will, as you all know, be prohibitively expensive.”

And famously, Mason said, we are the militia. They are the whole people, and that was never disputed in that time period and the Commonwealth didn’t dispute that.

Technically, yes, but it has been made so thoroughly cumbersome and expensive that it has proven impractical for States to use it.

I started, particularly here at the 250th anniversary [of Virginia’s constitution being adopted], by reflecting on sections one, two, and three of the Declaration of Rights, which were adopted at the same time as Section 13.

The answer is no. I was never ordered or asked to do that. He respected that answer.