Assertion: second amendment | /r/CapableOf | protect collective right
Facets:
value: to firearms
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the extent
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The question presented by this case is not whether the Second Amendment protects a "collective right" or an "individual right.
text: In particular federal courts have recast much of the debate as one over whether the Second Amendment protects a "collective" right or an "individual" right to bear arms.
text: In the latter half of the 20th century, there was considerable debate over whether the Second Amendment protected an individual right or a collective right.
text: These interpretations held that this was a grammar structure that was common during that era and that this grammar dictated that the Second Amendment protected a collective right to firearms to the extent necessary for militia duty.
text: If the Second Amendment protects only a collective right, then only states would have the power to bring a legal action to enforce it and only for the purpose of maintaining a "well-regulated militia.
text: Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.