Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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right to keep and bear arms · right of the people to keep and bear arms
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The constitutionally recognized right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
” This constitutional security for “the right to keep and bear arms,” implies the right to use them—as much as a constitutional security for the right to buy and keep food would have implied the right to eat it.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The constitutional right to keep and bear arms, argued to be secured to all persons including those States call slaves.
Look, too, at this power, in connection with the second amendment to the constitution;
This right of a man “to keep and bear arms,” is a right palpably inconsistent with the idea of his being a slave.
for this constitutional right to keep arms implies the constitutional right to use them, if need be, for the defence of one’s liberty or life.