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  2. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    On September 4, the Senate voted to change the language of the Second Amendment by removing the definition of militia, and striking the conscientious objector clause: [141] A well regulated militia, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

  3. Regulator Movement in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials whom they viewed as corrupt.

  4. Militia (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The term "militia" derives from Old English milite meaning soldiers (plural), militisc meaning military and also classical Latin milit-, miles meaning soldier.. The Modern English term militia dates to the year 1590, with the original meaning now obsolete: "the body of soldiers in the service of a sovereign or a state".

  5. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and 1789. Fighting in the American Revolutionary War started between colonial militias and the British Army in 1775. The Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence on ...

  6. Committee of safety (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    A July 4, 1776, notice sent by the Second Continental Congress to a Committee of Safety organized in Lancaster in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. In the American Revolution, committees of correspondence, committees of inspection, also known as committees of observation and committees of safety, were different local committees of Patriots that became a shadow government; they took ...

  7. 1776 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    July 4 American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence, in which the United States officially declares independence from the British Empire, is approved by the Continental Congress and signed by its president, John Hancock, together with representatives from Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina ...

  8. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    1776–1789 American ... Other laws regulated colonial industries, such as the Wool Act 1698, the Hat Act 1731, and the Iron Act 1750. [18] ...

  9. Militia - Wikipedia

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    The term Militsiya in Russia and former Communist Bloc nations was specifically used to refer to the civilian police force, and should not be confused with the conventional western definition of militia. The term, as used in this context, dated from post-revolutionary Russia in late 1917 and was intended to draw a distinction between the new ...