The hidden history of the constitution of the states themselves...
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In the landmark Heller case, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. Heller involved restrictions on keeping a gun in the home, but the Court is set to hear a case this November dealing with restrictions on carrying a gun outside the home. One key question in both cases is what the Second Amendment’s language meant when it was adopted in 1791. The gun-control crowd has long claimed that the right to “bear arms” historically just meant serving in the militia, not carrying guns for self-defense. Does the history bear that theory out?
One place we can look to try to figure out what the Second Amendment’s text means is other similar provisions adopted around the same time.
Shortly before or after the Second Amendment was adopted, nine States adopted provisions similar to the Second Amendment as part of their own state constitutions.
Because these state constitution provisions use similar language to the Second Amendment—in a very similar context—they provide powerful evidence of what the “right to keep and bear arms” meant to the people who wrote and adopted it.
And when you look at those state constitutions, it becomes completely clear that the right to “bear arms” did not just mean the right to “join a militia.” It meant the right to carry arms for self-defense.
Anti-gunners have argued for years that the Second Amendment grants only a so-called “collective right” to serve in a militia—in other words, no right at all.
Under this interpretation, when the Second Amendment talks about “bearing arms,” it’s using a fancy way of referring to serving in a militia.
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Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QWleXtWy80
