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A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias by Andrew Fletcher, 1698   Due to the size of this file -- just slightly too large for a database, which is limited to 65,000 characters -- "A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias" by Andrew Fletcher is actually archived here: https://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/information/fletcher.asp. We placed this reference to Fletcher's work in our Militia databased archive so it could be found among our other militia-related writings, and so a database search on the author's name would yield a result. America's founding fathers were well aware of Fletcher's Discourse. It has been said by some -- Vin Suprynowicz among them -- that the term "well regulated" found in the second amendment was coined in A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias.