Assertion: amendment's passage | /r/CapableOf | bear arm
Facets:
value: in this issue
type: LOCATION
value: in state constitutions
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Noting that by the 1850s the perceived threat that the National Government would disarm the citizens had largely faded, the Court suggested that the right to keep and bear arms became valued principally for purposes of self-defense, so that the passage of Fourteenth Amendment, in part, was intended to protect the right of ex-slaves to keep and bear arms.
text: Read passages referring to militias and bearing arms in state constitutions ratified before 1791, also in this issue.