Assertion: militia's right | /r/CapableOf | bear arm
Facets:
value: for the purpose
type: PURPOSE
value: for the common defence
type: PURPOSE
value: in defence of themselves
type: PURPOSE
value: in the militia
type: LOCATION
value: in the proposed amendment
type: LOCATION
value: for common and extraordinary occations
type: PURPOSE
value: to secure ourselves
type: PURPOSE
value: in england
type: LOCATION
value: as a natural right
type: MANNER
value: especially important
type: DEGREE
value: in the nineteenth century
type: TEMPORAL
value: in english common law
type: LOCATION
value: among those fundamental rights
type: OTHER
value: solely
type: DEGREE
value: to those
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for service in a state militia
type: PURPOSE
value: under the second amendment
type: OTHER
value: individually
type: MANNER
value: to serve
type: PURPOSE
value: as a potential check against tyranny
type: PURPOSE
value: to prevent a holocaust
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to "keep and bear Arms" in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with the operative clause's description of the holder of that right as "the people.
text: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of the free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of the free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The bill states that it is acting to restore "ancient rights" trampled upon by James II, though some have argued that the English Bill of Rights created a new right to have arms, which developed out of a duty to have arms.
text: In the Dred Scott decision (1857), the opinion of the court stated that if African Americans were considered U.S. citizens, "It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right ... to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed.
text: Originally, regardless of how the militia was armed, the Second Amendment was ratified to ensure the right of the people to keep their own arms (after all, federally supplied arms could be withdrawn).
text: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
text: The court also stated: "The Amendment could be rephrased, 'Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.'
text: The court states: "It was clearly an individual right, having nothing whatever to do with service in a militia" (p.20), adding "Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to “keep and bear Arms” in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with
text: Patrick Henry: “The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
text: “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
text: “The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits…and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
text: Many people initially joined the fledgling militia movement largely as a way to protect more aggressively their right to bear arms; even today, gun-related issues dominate many of the newsletters published by militia groups.
text: Its stated goals include protecting the right to keep and bear arms, and to "push back against tyranny".
text: The Second Amendment gives you the right to bear arms, but really, that’s the beginning point of the conversation
text: The language of the Second Amendment, which assures the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, is simultaneously explicit and opaque.
text: The Second Amendment gives you the right to bear arms,” says Jesse Choper, a UC Berkeley Law professor emeritus and the former Berkeley Law dean.
text: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Did they mean that only those citizens who are organized into official militias by local or regional jurisdictions have the right to bear arms?
text: No right, including the right to bear arms, is absolute.
text: And [Neil] Gorsuch [recently appointed to SCOTUS by Trump] believes the Second Amendment should be interpreted as a strong defense of the right to bear arms.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: But should the state fail to arm its citizen militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms becomes the source of the guarantee that the state will not be found defenseless in the presence of a threat to its security.
text: Revolution (by which time they had been around for >100 years) & were the best reason why a right to keep and bear arms was included in the original Bill of Rights: to maintain that well-regulated militia.
text: The strongest reasons for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
text: This unfringible right to bear arms could be seen in the documented martial sense, as opposed to the private sense, and simultaneously seen as a right to operate in private militias, as opposed to state militias.
text: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership is a gun rights advocate group and their position is to preserve the right to keep and bear arms to prevent a Holocaust from happening in the US.
text: The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms, so they can have their weapons.
text: The Second Amendment of white America’s Constitution gives a right to bear arms.
text: That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
text: Part of the Bill of Rights, regarding the right to bear arms
text: The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
text: , the Supreme Court ruled that, "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The statement in the English Bill of Rights concerning the right to bear arms is often quoted only in the passage where it is written as above and not in its full context.
text: Early English settlers in America viewed the right to arms and/or the right to bear arms and/or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes (in no particular order):[g][h]
text: Some of these purposes were explicitly mentioned in early state constitutions; for example, the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 asserted that, "the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.
text: Modern scholars Thomas B. McAffee and Michael J. Quinlan have stated that James Madison "did not invent the right to keep and bear arms when he drafted the Second Amendment; the right was pre-existing at both common law and in the early state constitutions.
text: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
text: That the people have a right to bear arms, for the defence of the State; and, as standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
text: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the themselves and the State; and as standing armies, in the time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
text: The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence.
text: Against that backdrop, the framers saw the personal right to bear arms as a potential check against tyranny.
text: Because all were members of the militia, all enjoyed the right to individually bear arms to serve therein.
text: Writing after the ratification of the Constitution, but before the election of the first Congress, James Monroe included "the right to keep and bear arms" in a list of basic "human rights", which he proposed to be added to the Constitution.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: By this time, the proposed right to keep and bear arms was in a separate amendment, instead of being in a single amendment together with other proposed rights such as the due process right.
text: A well regulated militia, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
text: In footnotes 40 and 41 of the Commentaries, Tucker stated that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment was not subject to the restrictions that were part of English law: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: In footnotes 40 and 41 of the Commentaries, Tucker stated that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment was not subject to the restrictions that were part of English law: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpations and arbitrary power of rulers; and it will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: The right of every person to "life, liberty, and property," to "keep and bear arms," to the "writ of habeas corpus" to "trial by jury," and divers others, are recognized by, and held under, the Constitution of the United States, and cannot be infringed by individuals or even by the government itself.
text: It might be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms; and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.
text: Under this approach, citizens "have no right to keep or bear arms, but the states have a collective right to have the National Guard".
text: However, beginning with the Fifth Circuit's opinion United States v. Emerson in 2001, some circuit courts recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
text: Supporters of this model argued that "although the first clause may describe a general purpose for the amendment, the second clause is controlling and therefore the amendment confers an individual right 'of the people' to keep and bear arms".
text: The Constitution of the United States, in its Second Amendment, guarantees a 'right of the people to keep and bear arms.'
text: Nor is the right involved in this discussion less comprehensive or valuable: "The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: And the Court's emphatic reliance on the claim "that the Second Amendment ... codified a pre-existing right," ante, at 19 [refers to p. 19 of the opinion], is of course beside the point because the right to keep and bear arms for service in a state militia was also a pre-existing right.
text: According to the majority in Heller, there were several different reasons for this amendment, and protecting militias was only one of them; if protecting militias had been the only reason then the amendment could have instead referred to "the right of the militia to keep and bear arms" instead of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: According to the majority in Heller, there were several different reasons for this amendment, and protecting militias was only one of them; if protecting militias had been the only reason then the amendment could have instead referred to "the right of the militia to keep and bear arms" instead of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: The Amendment's text does justify a different limitation: the "right to keep and bear arms" protects only a right to possess and use firearms in connection with service in a state-organized militia.
text: State and federal courts historically have used two models to interpret the Second Amendment: the "individual rights" model, which holds that individuals hold the right to bear arms, and the "collective rights" model, which holds that the right is dependent on militia membership.
text: Heller and McDonald supported the individual rights model, under which the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms much as the First Amendment protects the right to free speech.
text: In Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U.S. 275 (1897), the Supreme Court stated in dicta that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms (Art.
text: The operative clause's text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms.
text: The Second Amendment's drafting history, while of dubious interpretive worth, reveals three state Second Amendment proposals that unequivocally referred to an individual right to bear arms.
text: United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174, does not limit the right to keep and bear arms to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia, i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes.
text: The majority opinion quoted Spooner from The Unconstitutionality of Slavery as saying that the right to bear arms was necessary for those who wanted to take a stand against slavery.
text: The majority opinion made clear that the recent ruling did not foreclose the Court's prior interpretations given in United States v. Cruikshank, Presser v. Illinois, and United States v. Miller though these earlier rulings did not limit the right to keep and bear arms solely to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia (i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes).
text: If the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that amendment was very important when the nation was new; it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms, but it was for one purpose only –
text: On June 28, 2010, the Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), held that the Second Amendment was incorporated, saying that "[i]t is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty.
text: In so holding, the Court reiterated that "the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense" (id. at ___, 130 S. Ct. at 3026); that "individual self-defense is 'the central component' of the Second Amendment right" (emphasis in original)
text: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State.
text: In the context of the protected right, its safe to say that "A well [blank] militia" is the resulting act completed by "the right of the people to keep and bear arms".
text: While each American has the right to keep and bear arms, some States have passed laws regarding the scope and form of weapon possession and regulations impeding paramilitary training.
text: Two or more individuals are exercising their right to assemble and combining that activity with right to keep and bear arms when they conduct weapons training as part of militia activities.
text: However, the Court did not have a majority on which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the fundamental right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
text: Hence, the framers of the Constitution were quick to enshrine the right to keep and bear arms, as well as the provision that, “No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
text: If, then, the raison d’être of the Second Amendment is a well-regulated militia, and the right of civilians to keep and bear arms has no bearing whatsoever on the ability of the federal government to arm the National Guard, perhaps a conversation on the utility and merits of the Second Amendment in the 21st century
text: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Generally interpreted by others to mean bodies such as the National Guard and state police, assembled and regulated by the states or the Feds, and interpreted by them to mean an individual right to bear arms and form private paramilitary groups.
text: The Amendment does not protect “the right of militiamen to keep and bear arms,” but rather “the right of the people.
text: —is understood by enthusiastic gun regulators as defining the only reason for preserving the right to keep and bear arms (as opposed to one of the reasons).
text: the right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned,” for example, while Vermont’s, enacted in 1777, said “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State.
text: the right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned,” for example, while Vermont’s, enacted in 1777, said “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State.
text: But whether we currently have a well-regulated militia doesn’t control whether or not Americans have a right to keep and bear arms.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: James Madison, in 1789, said before the explicit language of the 2nd Amendment had been ratified (emphasis added) that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: Given that a "well-regulated militia" will, at times, be necessary to "the security of a free State," "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" by the federal government.
text: The Second Amendment to the Constitution added the often-cited phrase: “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: This law protects the right of American citizens to bear arms, and makes reference to the existence of well-regulated militias.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Most Americans only understand the phrase; “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” while ignoring the preceding phrase, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.
text: It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose”.
text: William Rawle, whose work was adopted as a constitutional law textbook at West Point and other institutions, and was United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, describes the scope of the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms:
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them”.
text: “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and their own State or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game.
text: And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms.
text: The Constitution says ‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
text: By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute.
text: the lead opinion taking the view that the ban was a reasonable regulation and adding that the right to bear arms “for the common defense” meant only that the government might not impose regulations that interfered with the ability to resist tyranny, which a ban on concealed carry did not.
text: … wherein proves the rights of the people and the militia to buy, train with and bear arms is out of the reach of Congress or the President as well as drafting them into services outside of defending this nation.
text: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: The Second Amendment protects ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms,’ and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to ‘the people.
text: A well-regulated Militia, consisting of all persons capable of bearing arms, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Founders knew — and put in the form of a written guarantee — the proposition that the individual right to keep and bear arms was the principal means of preserving a militia that was "essential," in a free state, to provide personal and collective self-defense against criminals of all stripes, both domestic and foreign.
text: The Second Amendment says: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: These laws had some provisions in common, such as the right of the people to keep and bear arms and the exemption of conscientious objectors from military duty; the laws varied in other areas, such as in the frequency of training and the methods for selecting officers.
text: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state...
text: Cornell states, "One of the most serious problems with individual rights theory is that it makes it impossible to understand why some states embraced a new formulation of the right to bear arms in the nineteenth century.
text: Rather than assert a right to 'bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state,' the new Jacksonian constitutional formulation of this right asserted that 'each person has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.'
text: Pennsylvania kept that same clause in a 1790 revision as follows: "That the right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
text: The right of the citizens to bear arms in the defence of themselves shall not be questioned.
text: What the right to bear arms really means ).
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the People, being the best security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: "That the people have a right to bear arms, for the defence of the State...
text: Massachusetts: (1780): The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence.
text: Spitzer also misinterprets Emery's view of the right to bear arms as if he were writing about the entire Second Amendment:
text: The constitutional guaranty of a right to bear arms does not include weapons not usual or suitable for use in organized civilized warfare, such as dirks, bowie knives, sling shot, brass knuckles, etc., and the carrying of such weapons may be prohibited.
text: Once again Emery states severe restrictions may be placed on the "guraranty" of the right to bear arms, not the Second Amendment as a whole.
text: The Second Amendment, part of the US Bill of Rights, concerns the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: The People” have not only the Right to keep and bear arms, but more importantly, the obligation.
text: The constitution and the right to bear arms are under threat, and American society has fallen into a mire, says one attendee, echoing some of the language used at white supremacist rallies.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
text: Patrick Henry, Elliot p. 3:50-53, in Virginia Ratifying Convention demanding a guarantee of the right to bear arms
text: The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally … enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: The right [to bear arms] is general.
text: It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.
text: The Second Amendment of the US Constitution is often referred to as giving citizens the right to bear arms.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: It’s easy to see why American immigrants, many of them Protestants, would have held the right to bear arms especially important, and been anxious to see this provision guaranteed.
text: The right of citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States… Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America.
text: The right to "keep and bear arms" in a "well-regulated militia" was not a license to individually train or discharge firearms.
text: When the gun debate moves to the Second Amendment, some argue that the militia is supposed to have the right to keep and bear arms, and not the people.
text: The legal basis for assemblies of militias are two natural rights: the right to assemble and the right to keep and bear arms.
text: But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms.
text: They focus on protecting second amendment rights - or the right to bear arms granted by the US constitution.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: To that end, the 2nd amendment also guaranteed citizens the right to bear arms -- a militia with no weapons would not be much use.
text: Both the Pennsylvania and Vermont constitutions asserted that “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state. . . .
text: The desire to prevent enfeebling state militias, which provided a check to a standing army, prompted the ratifying conventions to call for an amendment guaranteeing the right of citizens to bear arms.
text: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: 3d 768 (D. Md. 2014); vacated and remanded, Kolbe vs. Hogan, 813 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2016); rev’d en banc, Kolbe vs. Hogan, 849 F.3d 114 (4th Cir. 2017)), legal commentators and laymen generally ignore the issue whether the prefatory militia clause still constrains the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: For, the Heller Court majority accepted, as axiomatic, and, in the first instance, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a natural right, preexistent in man and not a privilege bestowed on man by the State, through Government.
text: This sacred principal, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a natural right, preexistent in man, is consistent with the framers' belief concerning the concept of natural rights, inherent in man.
text: The dissenting Justices must accept one premise that is a basic assumption of the Heller Court majority, namely that the right of the people to keep and bear arms can, at least in theory, under the dissenting Justices' thesis, be vindicated.
text: For, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be vindicated, then the right does not exist, and the right codified in the Second Amendment reduces the Second Amendment to a nullity as the right sits empty in the Second Amendment, as a bald face lie.
text: Yet, Justice Stevens lays out this odd gambit, proclaiming unconvincingly and, in fact, inconsistently, that, the individual right of the people to keep and bear arms can be vindicated, notwithstanding that the right is tied exclusively to one’s connection with and service in a militia.
text: But, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a collective right, after all, then, how is the right ever to be vindicated?
text: Justice Stevens attempts to conflate the concept of individual rights and collective rights, ostensibly to support the notion that the right of the people to keep and bear arms that he proclaims to be tied solely to one's connection with a militia, can be vindicated.
text: We should not dispense with the individual right/collective right distinction, from the legal standpoint, because doing so is an affront to the framers' idea of the right of the people to keep and bear arms as a natural right, governed by natural law–that the right is not, then, man-made, and, therefore, ought not be constrained by man-made laws.
text: After surmising that the right of the people to keep and bear arms can be vindicated in the context of an individual's connection with a militia, Justice Stevens continues with the crux of his thesis, namely that the Second Amendment's dependent clause, that he refers to as a “preamble,” carries the force of the right.
text: Justice Stevens argues that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is conditioned by, limited by the “preamble.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms is not conditioned by the dependent, antecedent clause of the Second Amendment.
text: Moreover, as an embodiment of a natural law, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be conditioned anyway.
text: For, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms extends merely to one’s service in a militia, does not that interpretation essentially destroy the right embodied in the Amendment?
text: For, even as to Congress, if one surmises that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is bound up in the notion of a militia, Congress may very well have plenary power to disband a State militia.
text: That means the right of the people to keep and bear arms either exists within the context of a man-made construct–a militia–
text: The unorganized militia members, “the people,” had the right to keep and bear arms.
text: We are the only country in the world that has the right to bear arms, and it shall not be infringed written into our constitution (bill of rights).
text: The framers did not talk about the right to bear arms as one of the set of natural rights," he says.
text: But the provision was easily accepted because everyone agreed that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion.
text: Both the Pennsylvania and Vermont constitutions asserted that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state....
text: The desire to prevent enfeebling state militias, which provided a check to a standing army, prompted the ratifying conventions to call for an amendment guaranteeing the right of citizens to bear arms.
text: Even in such States however, you may not have your right to peacefully assemble or keep and bear arms infringed upon without such acts violating the Constitution.
text: The court also stated: "The Amendment could be rephrased, 'Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.'
text: The court states: "It was clearly an individual right, having nothing whatever to do with service in a militia" (p.20), adding "Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to “keep and bear Arms” in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with
text: Patrick Henry: “The people have a right to keep and bear arms.
text: “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
text: “The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits…and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
text: Its stated goals include protecting the right to keep and bear arms, and to "push back against tyranny".
text: The language of the Second Amendment, which assures the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, is simultaneously explicit and opaque.
text: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: But should the state fail to arm its citizen militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms becomes the source of the guarantee that the state will not be found defenseless in the presence of a threat to its security.
text: Revolution (by which time they had been around for >100 years) & were the best reason why a right to keep and bear arms was included in the original Bill of Rights: to maintain that well-regulated militia.
text: The strongest reasons for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
text: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership is a gun rights advocate group and their position is to preserve the right to keep and bear arms to prevent a Holocaust from happening in the US.
text: The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms, so they can have their weapons.
text: That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
text: The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: Modern scholars Thomas B. McAffee and Michael J. Quinlan have stated that James Madison "did not invent the right to keep and bear arms when he drafted the Second Amendment; the right was pre-existing at both common law and in the early state constitutions.
text: The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence.
text: Writing after the ratification of the Constitution, but before the election of the first Congress, James Monroe included "the right to keep and bear arms" in a list of basic "human rights", which he proposed to be added to the Constitution.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: By this time, the proposed right to keep and bear arms was in a separate amendment, instead of being in a single amendment together with other proposed rights such as the due process right.
text: A well regulated militia, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.
text: In footnotes 40 and 41 of the Commentaries, Tucker stated that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment was not subject to the restrictions that were part of English law: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpations and arbitrary power of rulers; and it will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: The right of every person to "life, liberty, and property," to "keep and bear arms," to the "writ of habeas corpus" to "trial by jury," and divers others, are recognized by, and held under, the Constitution of the United States, and cannot be infringed by individuals or even by the government itself.
text: It might be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms; and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.
text: Under this approach, citizens "have no right to keep or bear arms, but the states have a collective right to have the National Guard".
text: Supporters of this model argued that "although the first clause may describe a general purpose for the amendment, the second clause is controlling and therefore the amendment confers an individual right 'of the people' to keep and bear arms".
text: The Constitution of the United States, in its Second Amendment, guarantees a 'right of the people to keep and bear arms.'
text: And the Court's emphatic reliance on the claim "that the Second Amendment ... codified a pre-existing right," ante, at 19 [refers to p. 19 of the opinion], is of course beside the point because the right to keep and bear arms for service in a state militia was also a pre-existing right.
text: According to the majority in Heller, there were several different reasons for this amendment, and protecting militias was only one of them; if protecting militias had been the only reason then the amendment could have instead referred to "the right of the militia to keep and bear arms" instead of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: According to the majority in Heller, there were several different reasons for this amendment, and protecting militias was only one of them; if protecting militias had been the only reason then the amendment could have instead referred to "the right of the militia to keep and bear arms" instead of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: The Amendment's text does justify a different limitation: the "right to keep and bear arms" protects only a right to possess and use firearms in connection with service in a state-organized militia.
text: In the Dred Scott decision (1857), the opinion of the court stated that if African Americans were considered U.S. citizens, "It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right ... to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
text: Heller and McDonald supported the individual rights model, under which the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms much as the First Amendment protects the right to free speech.
text: In Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U.S. 275 (1897), the Supreme Court stated in dicta that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms (Art.
text: Gun rights advocates claim that the Court in Miller ruled that the Second Amendment protected the right to keep arms that are part of "ordinary military equipment.
text: The operative clause's text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms.
text: United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174, does not limit the right to keep and bear arms to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia, i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes.
text: The majority opinion made clear that the recent ruling did not foreclose the Court's prior interpretations given in United States v. Cruikshank, Presser v. Illinois, and United States v. Miller though these earlier rulings did not limit the right to keep and bear arms solely to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia (i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes).
text: If the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that amendment was very important when the nation was new; it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms, but it was for one purpose only –
text: On June 28, 2010, the Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), held that the Second Amendment was incorporated, saying that "[i]t is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty.
text: In so holding, the Court reiterated that "the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense" (id. at ___, 130 S. Ct. at 3026); that "individual self-defense is 'the central component' of the Second Amendment right" (emphasis in original)
text: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: In the context of the protected right, its safe to say that "A well [blank] militia" is the resulting act completed by "the right of the people to keep and bear arms".
text: While each American has the right to keep and bear arms, some States have passed laws regarding the scope and form of weapon possession and regulations impeding paramilitary training.
text: Two or more individuals are exercising their right to assemble and combining that activity with right to keep and bear arms when they conduct weapons training as part of militia activities.
text: However, the Court did not have a majority on which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the fundamental right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
text: Hence, the framers of the Constitution were quick to enshrine the right to keep and bear arms, as well as the provision that, “No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
text: If, then, the raison d’être of the Second Amendment is a well-regulated militia, and the right of civilians to keep and bear arms has no bearing whatsoever on the ability of the federal government to arm the National Guard, perhaps a conversation on the utility and merits of the Second Amendment in the 21st century
text: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Amendment does not protect “the right of militiamen to keep and bear arms,” but rather “the right of the people.
text: —is understood by enthusiastic gun regulators as defining the only reason for preserving the right to keep and bear arms (as opposed to one of the reasons).
text: But whether we currently have a well-regulated militia doesn’t control whether or not Americans have a right to keep and bear arms.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: James Madison, in 1789, said before the explicit language of the 2nd Amendment had been ratified (emphasis added) that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: Given that a "well-regulated militia" will, at times, be necessary to "the security of a free State," "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" by the federal government.
text: The Second Amendment to the Constitution added the often-cited phrase: “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Most Americans only understand the phrase; “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” while ignoring the preceding phrase, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.
text: It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for that purpose”.
text: William Rawle, whose work was adopted as a constitutional law textbook at West Point and other institutions, and was United States Attorney for Pennsylvania, describes the scope of the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms:
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them”.
text: And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms.
text: The Constitution says ‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
text: By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: The Second Amendment protects ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms,’ and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to ‘the people.
text: A well-regulated Militia, consisting of all persons capable of bearing arms, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Founders knew — and put in the form of a written guarantee — the proposition that the individual right to keep and bear arms was the principal means of preserving a militia that was "essential," in a free state, to provide personal and collective self-defense against criminals of all stripes, both domestic and foreign.
text: The Second Amendment says: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: These laws had some provisions in common, such as the right of the people to keep and bear arms and the exemption of conscientious objectors from military duty; the laws varied in other areas, such as in the frequency of training and the methods for selecting officers.
text: (As mentioned in GunCite's, The Original Intent and Purpose of the Second Amendment , it was not the intent of the framers to restrict the right to keep arms to only those serving active militia duty.)
text: [I]n that may be secured the right to keep arms for Common and Extraordinary Occations such as to secure ourselves against the wild Beast and also to amuse us by fowling and for our Defence against a Common Enemy[.]
text: It is clear that Nasson read a broad personal right to keep arms in the proposed amendment, unconditioned upon militia service, and that familiarity and practice with arms enabled the citizenry to effectively oppose an invasion or tyranny by a standing army.
text: A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the People, being the best security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
text: Massachusetts: (1780): The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence.
text: The Second Amendment, part of the US Bill of Rights, concerns the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: The People” have not only the Right to keep and bear arms, but more importantly, the obligation.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
text: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally … enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
text: The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is, that the people, from whom the militia must be taken, shall have the right to keep and bear arms, and they need no permission or regulation of law for the purpose.
text: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The right of citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States… Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America.
text: When the gun debate moves to the Second Amendment, some argue that the militia is supposed to have the right to keep and bear arms, and not the people.
text: The legal basis for assemblies of militias are two natural rights: the right to assemble and the right to keep and bear arms.
text: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
text: The reference is to the famous introductory phrase of the 2nd Amendment, which says, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text: 3d 768 (D. Md. 2014); vacated and remanded, Kolbe vs. Hogan, 813 F.3d 160 (4th Cir. 2016); rev’d en banc, Kolbe vs. Hogan, 849 F.3d 114 (4th Cir. 2017)), legal commentators and laymen generally ignore the issue whether the prefatory militia clause still constrains the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
text: For, the Heller Court majority accepted, as axiomatic, and, in the first instance, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a natural right, preexistent in man and not a privilege bestowed on man by the State, through Government.
text: This sacred principal, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a natural right, preexistent in man, is consistent with the framers' belief concerning the concept of natural rights, inherent in man.
text: The dissenting Justices must accept one premise that is a basic assumption of the Heller Court majority, namely that the right of the people to keep and bear arms can, at least in theory, under the dissenting Justices' thesis, be vindicated.
text: For, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be vindicated, then the right does not exist, and the right codified in the Second Amendment reduces the Second Amendment to a nullity as the right sits empty in the Second Amendment, as a bald face lie.
text: Yet, Justice Stevens lays out this odd gambit, proclaiming unconvincingly and, in fact, inconsistently, that, the individual right of the people to keep and bear arms can be vindicated, notwithstanding that the right is tied exclusively to one’s connection with and service in a militia.
text: But, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a collective right, after all, then, how is the right ever to be vindicated?
text: Justice Stevens attempts to conflate the concept of individual rights and collective rights, ostensibly to support the notion that the right of the people to keep and bear arms that he proclaims to be tied solely to one's connection with a militia, can be vindicated.
text: We should not dispense with the individual right/collective right distinction, from the legal standpoint, because doing so is an affront to the framers' idea of the right of the people to keep and bear arms as a natural right, governed by natural law–that the right is not, then, man-made, and, therefore, ought not be constrained by man-made laws.
text: After surmising that the right of the people to keep and bear arms can be vindicated in the context of an individual's connection with a militia, Justice Stevens continues with the crux of his thesis, namely that the Second Amendment's dependent clause, that he refers to as a “preamble,” carries the force of the right.
text: Justice Stevens argues that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is conditioned by, limited by the “preamble.
text: The right of the people to keep and bear arms is not conditioned by the dependent, antecedent clause of the Second Amendment.
text: Moreover, as an embodiment of a natural law, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be conditioned anyway.
text: For, if the right of the people to keep and bear arms extends merely to one’s service in a militia, does not that interpretation essentially destroy the right embodied in the Amendment?
text: For, even as to Congress, if one surmises that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is bound up in the notion of a militia, Congress may very well have plenary power to disband a State militia.
text: That means the right of the people to keep and bear arms either exists within the context of a man-made construct–a militia–
text: To tie the right of the people to keep and bear arms into the notion of a “militia” or into the descendent of the militia–the National Guard, which is essentially a part of a “standing army”–the very thing the framers sought, in the codification of the right in the Second Amendment to be a guard against–turns the right into a blasphemous, ludicrous caricature.
text: The unorganized militia members, “the people,” had the right to keep and bear arms.
text: But the provision was easily accepted because everyone agreed that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion.
text: Even in such States however, you may not have your right to peacefully assemble or keep and bear arms infringed upon without such acts violating the Constitution.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment protects "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms," and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to "the people"...
text: A well regulated Militia , being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: On the one hand, some believe that the Amendment's phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" creates an individual constitutional right for citizens of the United States.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: ,” it says, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The part of the amendment that could be its own stand-alone sentence—the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed—is known as the “operative clause.
text: The town hall was remarkable in many ways, not least for a question asked by the school’s history teacher, Diane Wolk Rogers, about a portion of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment from 1791, which states: “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: “right to keep and bear Arms” and maximize its political significance and practical efficacy.
text: The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that a well regulated Militia, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.1 min read
text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Operative clause: "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment protects "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms," and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to "the people"...
text: A well regulated Militia , being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: On the one hand, some believe that the Amendment's phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" creates an individual constitutional right for citizens of the United States.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: ,” it says, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: The part of the amendment that could be its own stand-alone sentence—the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed—is known as the “operative clause.
text: The town hall was remarkable in many ways, not least for a question asked by the school’s history teacher, Diane Wolk Rogers, about a portion of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment from 1791, which states: “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: “right to keep and bear Arms” and maximize its political significance and practical efficacy.
text: The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that a well regulated Militia, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.1 min read
text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: Operative clause: "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
text: In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court did not accept this view, remarking that the English right at the time of the passing of the English Bill of Rights was "clearly an individual right, having nothing whatsoever to do with service in the militia" and that it was a right not to be disarmed by the Crown and was not the granting of a new right to have arms.
text: Nevertheless, the English Bill of Rights remains an important constitutional document, more for enumerating the rights of Parliament over the monarchy than for its clause concerning a right to have arms.
text: In 1765, William Blackstone wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England describing the right to have arms in England during the 18th century as a subordinate auxiliary right of the subject that was "also declared" in the English Bill of Rights.
text: Mason may well have believed in a personal right to arms outside the function of a militia, he may have even believed that the right to have arms in order to overthrow the government.
text: So we see that at the time of its writing, it was clearly understood that the Second Amendment protected the right of all citizenry to have and carry arms.
text: The right "to carry arms in the militia for the purpose of killing game" is worthy of the mad hatter.
text: The right "to carry arms in the militia for the purpose of killing game" is worthy of the mad hatter.
text: So we see that at the time of its writing, it was clearly understood that the Second Amendment protected the right of all citizenry to have and carry arms.