and 60 were subject to the sheriff's summons for posse duty or to suppress local disorders. For large-scale emergencies, such as invasion or insurrection, a civilian militia was intermittently mustered for military duty. On a smaller scale, English subjects were involved in everyday police work. When a crime occurred, citizens were to raise a "hue and cry" to alert their neighbors and were expected to pursue the criminals "from town to town, and from county to county." [135] This concept of public security also advances the "security of a free State." [136] The People The term people has been consistently interpreted to mean that the Constitution protects an individual right, as in the first, fourth, ninth, (p.94) and tenth amendments. [137] The only deviation involves the arms right, and it comes in the seminal case of City of Salina v. Blaksley , [138] which held that it is solely a collective rather than an individual right. James Blaksley was convicted of carrying a pistol within the city "while under the influence of intoxicating liquor." While the conviction could have been sustained under the general police powers of the state, [139] the court chose "to treat the question [of bearing arms] as an original one." It misread In re Brickey [140] by claiming that the case sanctioned the carrying of concealed weapons on constitutional grounds. However, Brickey merely struck down a statute that forbade the carrying of a pistol in town in any manner, specifically holding that forbidding the carrying of