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   by throw0112a 11y ago

   >Nunn vs Georgia (1846) [...] An in Alabama State vs Reid (1840) the 'court held that the law “to suppress the evil practice of carrying weapons secretly,” did not violate the Alabama constitution. While the legislature could not pr
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   by throw0112a 11y ago

   But when Mason said "whole people", he was talking about the make up of the militia, and not the personal rights of said militia. (It's on this basis that conscription is legal in the US and one can be forced into the militar
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   by throw0112a 11y ago

   > I suspect however that Jefferson would have extended his support for the right to cover ones stagecoach and personal property when traveling down the right of way.. I suspect however that Jefferson would not have .... It's useless
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   by throw0112a 11y ago

   > "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own land or tenements]" -Thomas Jefferson's proposal of language to add to the Virginia Constitution A proposal which was rejected AFAIK, and so all the others ar
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   by throw0112a 11y ago

   The ‘individual mandate’ of citizens having the right to firearms, when they’re not part of a state-level Militia, seems to be a recent phenomenon: > The U.S. Supreme Court had never, until 2008, suggested even once that there was any su