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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:06.558Z

Spent more time than I expected reading through the drafting history on this one. The path from Madison's original proposal to the final ratified text is something a lot of people skip over, and it actually matters for how you interpret the whole thing. A proposal to insert "for the common defence" after "bear arms" was defeated. That one sentence should end about half the arguments you hear at the gun shop counter. The Senate explicitly considered tying the right to collective defense only...

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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Second Amendment to 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."* Ratified on December 15, 1791, as part

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