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Love it or hate it, the Second Amendment provides the constitutional framework for American gun laws. As with all things constitutional, Americans are adapting 18th-century laws to fit 21st ...
The Anti-Federalist papers are a selection of the written arguments against the US Constitution by those known to posterity as the Anti-Federalists. As with the Federalist papers, these essays were originally published in newspapers.
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The Second Amendment responds to the Anti-Federalist fears that Congress might use its power to “organize, arm, and discipline” the militia as an excuse to disarm the American people. The Second Amendment prevents this. RATIFICATION DEBATES
Nov 16, 2016 · Furthermore, the Second Amendment was ratified in response to Anti-Federalist fears that the nationalization of military power in the new Constitution would permit the federal government to oppress the people and destroy the power of the states.
- Douglas Walker
- 2016
Jump to essay-12 See Steven J. Heyman, Natural Rights and the Second Amendment, in The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms 200–01 (Carl T. Bogus ed., 2000) (collecting anti-federalist objections regarding power over militia and to raise a standing army that could be used to ...
The Anti-Federalist Papers #1: General Introduction: A Dangerous Plan of Benefit Only to The “Aristocratick Combination.” #2: We Have Been Told of Phantoms. #3: New Constitution Creates a National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign Influence; Dangers of Civil War And Despotism. #4: Foreign Wars, Civil Wars, and Indian Wars — Three Bugbears.
Anti-Federalist Paper # 46 We find here that the Congress in its legislative capacity, shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, and excises; to borrow money; to regulate commerce; to fix the rule for naturalization and the
