9 —Josiah Quincy II, prominent spokesman for the Boston Sons of Liberty If the Second Amendment ... that the militia exists today only in the form of the National Guard, the modern militia ...

The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti ... very same weapons they would need if called to serve in the militia, while modern soldiers are equipped with weapons that differ significantly ...

20), the Second Amendment is a fairly simple sentence. “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 ...

By eliding the fundamental distinction between militia as duty and arms as right, Stevens renders an empty and incoherent version of the Second Amendment. Which, of course, is precisely the point ...

I have followed with interest some of the talk about the Second Amendment to our Constitution ... for owning arms is to maintain an orderly militia. What’s become of the reading of the whole ...

(NewsNation) — A town in Michigan has dubbed itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” and founded a militia over gun control laws being passed in the state. Holton Township passed the ...

If that majority goes, then the next gun-rights case will transform the Second Amendment into nothing more than a historical artifact of the era when the militia consisted of able-bodied men with ...

The Second Amendment links the right to bear arms and “the security of a free state.” Without access to guns for a militia, Americans believed they were vulnerable to oppression. In England ...

They focus on protecting second amendment rights - or the right to bear arms granted by the US constitution. Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, describes the militia ...

Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a “special guest” keynote speech at a “Defend the Second Amendment ... a 'well ...