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  2. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The historical link between the English Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment, which both codify an existing right and do not create a new one, has been acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court. [b] [c] The English Bill of Rights includes the proviso that arms must be as "allowed by law". This has been the case before and after the passage of ...

  3. Right to keep and bear arms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the right to keep and bear arms, whether considered an individual or a collective or a militia right, did not originate fully formed in the Bill of Rights in 1791; rather, the Second Amendment was the codification of the six-centuries-old responsibility to keep and bear arms for king and country that was inherited from the English ...

  4. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    Equal Rights Amendment: Would ensure the equality of rights by the federal or state governments based on gender. Proposed March 22, 1972. Initial ratification period ended March 22, 1979; purported [26] extension period ended June 30, 1982; amendment failed. [a] District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment

  5. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    The Bill of Rights 1689 allowed Protestant citizens of England to "have Arms for their Defense suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law." This restricted the ability of the English Crown to have a standing army or to interfere with Protestants' right to bear arms "when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law" and established that Parliament, not the Crown, could regulate ...

  6. The 2024 GOP Platform Barely Mentions Gun Rights - AOL

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    The 2016 Republican Party platform, which condemned Democrats for proposing laws that would "eviscerate the Second Amendment," devoted three paragraphs to gun rights.The 2020 platform did not ...

  7. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...

  8. The Supreme Court's 2nd Amendment Mistake - AOL

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    Unlike the First Amendment—which prohibits abridging the freedom of speech—the Second Amendment bans infringing upon the right to bear arms, a very different construction. This language meant ...

  9. Firearms regulation and protecting 2nd Amendment rights not ...

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