Assertion: militia's right | /r/HasProperty | existing at common law
Facets:
value: in the early state constitutions
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
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.