2nd AMENDMENT FACTS

FACTS ON THE 2ND AMENDMENT

Amendment II

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.

North Carolina Constitution Article I, Section 30

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; and, as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty. they shall not be maintained, and the military shall be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Nothing herein shall justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons, or prevent the General Assembly from enacting penal statutes against that practice.

LINKS TO EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

Things You Can Do to Defend Your Gun Rights, by Alan M. Gottlieb and David B. Kopel (text at saf.org)

Blackstone's Commentaries, With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Gederal Government of the United State and of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Philadelphia: Birch and Small, 1803), by William Blackstone, contrib. by St. George Tucker (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union (6th edition, 1856), by John Bouvier (text files at constitution.org)

The Founders' Constitution, ed. by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner (HTML at Chicago)

The position of Christianity in the United States, in its relations with our political institutions,and specially with reference to religious instruction in the public schools.: By Stephen Colwell.

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