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I. Text of the Second Amendment and Related Contemporaneous Provisions Second Amendment: 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. English Bill of Rights: That the subjects which are protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law (1689). 1 Connecticut: Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state (1818). 2 Kentucky: [T]he right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned (1792). 3 Massachusetts: The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence (1780). 4 North Carolina: [T]he 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 (1776). 5 Pennsylvania: 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 (1776). 6 The right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned (1790). 7 Rhode Island: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed (1842). 8 Tennessee: [T]he freemen of this State have a right to keep and bear arms for their common defence (1796). 9 Vermont: [T]he people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and 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 (1777). 10 Virginia: 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; 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. 11 From ‘Sources on the 2nd Amendment’: http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/2amteach\sources.htm#TOC1My personal guess is that this may be parsed as follows: [Since] A well regulated Militia [is clearly] necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. ~ tho’ ultimately (like Humpty says) the darn words will be taken to mean what the gun totin’ redknecks want to understand by ‘em!
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