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The Second Amendment has become one of the most controversial parts of the Constitution. Gun opponents claim that “the right to keep and bear arms” is a right that belongs only to the police and military. However, the Founding Fathers who wrote the Second Amendment in 1789 disagreed. Read the Founders’ words and examine their early laws and State constitutions on the subject. The conclusion is...

What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense.12 (emphasis added) James Wilson, an original Justice on the Supreme Court, similarly exhorted: The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.13 Justice Joseph Story (appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison) also emphasized this principle, declaring: The first and fundamental rule in
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