![]() ![]() 29 (Alexander Hamilton) (referencing proposition that standing armies are dangerous to liberty and militias are the most natural defense of a free country). In Founding-era America, citizen militias drawn from the local community existed to provide for the common defense, and standing armies of professional soldiers were viewed by some with suspicion. The early American experience with militias and military authority would inform what would become the Second Amendment as well. Joyce Lee Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right 115–16 (1994). That provision grew out of friction over the English Crown’s efforts to use loyal militias to control and disarm dissidents and enhance the Crown’s standing army, among other things, prior to the Glorious Revolution that supplanted King James II in favor of William and Mary. 2 Footnoteģ Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States § 1891 (1833). which declared that subjects, which are protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their condition, and as allowed by law. See William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America 126 (1829) ( In England, a country which boasts so much of its freedom, the right was secured to protestant subjects only, on the revolution of 1688 and it is cautiously described to be that of bearing arms for their defence, ‘suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law.’). Historical surveys of the Second Amendment often trace its roots, at least in part, through the English Bill of Rights of 1689, 1 Footnote 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 infringed. ![]()
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