Check out the date on this text. It's the same day Patrick Henry gave the "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" speech. These resolutions are actually what Henry was shooting for with the speech…and are the direct result of it.

The resolutions make four major statements:

1. Any "free government" needs a well-regulated militia to support it.
2. If Virginia had an awesome militia, Great Britain wouldn't need to send soldiers, which means they wouldn't need to tax Virginia to pay said soldiers, so everybody wins.
3. Now's a good time to establish a militia because, guys, the old laws about our defense are about to expire, and getting a legislature together to take care of this issue again is iffy, so we better do it now.
4. Also, we need to defend ourselves, so we're going to appoint twelve "Esquires" (old timey word for dudes we respect) to look into that and figure out how many guys we need and what supplies they need.