REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, A FRAMER OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN THE FIRST CONGRESS A free people ought … to be armed.56 GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. PRESIDENT, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION [N]o man should scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense.57 GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. PRESIDENT, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed—as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the