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The Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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 "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."

Resources:

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution

"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men capable of bearing arms;..." — "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).
 

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."— Tench Coxe, 1788.

Commentaries on the Constitution:

§ 1889. The next amendment is: "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."

§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.2 And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid. (COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES; WITH A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE COLONIES AND STATES, BEFORE THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. BY JOSEPH STORY, LL. D., DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.)

Senate Report:

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms REPORT of the SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session February 1982

Silveira v. Lockyer - Dissent by Kozinski, states in part:

 " ...a core value protected by the Second Amendment for "the people" was "the Right of the people to alter or abolish"48 tyrannical government, as they had done a decade before. ... 

As Blackstone describes the "natural right" of an Englishman to keep and bear arms, the arms are for personal defense as well as resistance to tyranny. The two are not always separable. After the Civil War, southern states began passing "Black Codes," designed to limit the freedom of blacks as much as possible.50 The "Black Codes" often contained restrictions on firearm ownership and possession.51 The codes sometimes made it a crime for whites even to loan guns to blacks.52 A substantial part of the debate in Congress on the Fourteenth Amendment was its necessity to enable blacks to protect themselves from White terrorism and tyranny in the South.53 Private terrorist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, were abetted by southern state governments’ refusal to protect black citizens, and the violence of such groups could only be realistically resisted with private firearms. When the state itself abets organized terrorism, the right of the people to keep and bear arms against a tyrant becomes inseparable from the right to self-defense....

the law establishes with the utmost clarity that the militia is precisely what the panel says it is not, an "amorphous body of the people as a whole."

Among the acts of the crown seen as oppressions to be prevented from ever happening again were the Militia Acts of 1757 through 1763 authorizing British officials "to seize and remove the arms" of colonial militias when they thought it necessary to the peace of the kingdom.69 The American Revolution was triggered when General Gage ordered troops to march from Boston to Lexington and Concord to do just that.70

...The one thing that is absolute is that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal and individual right to keep and bear arms, and prohibits government from disarming the people...."

 

Historical references:

Original Transcript of "The Bill of Rights"

The Bill of Rights - Gran'pa Jack's "Common Sense", by JPFO.

Patriot's Day - April 19, 1775

Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews - Stephen P. Halbrook 17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-535 (2000) Requires Adobe Acrobat

ARMED CITIZENS, CITIZEN ARMIES: TOWARD A JURISPRUDENCE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT - David T. Hardy

Nazism, the Second Amendment, & the NRA

TARGET SWITZERLAND
Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II
...In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home. Speech by Stephen Halbrook about this book

Bill of Rights Day (December 15th)

Battle for the U.S. Bill of Rights

Does Civilian Ownership of Firearms Actually Do Any Good-

The Human Cost of "Gun Control" Ideas

Documentaries:

"Innocents Betrayed ... shows why gun control must always be rejected." --Rep. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman (Texas, 14th District)

Download a Clip from Innocents Betrayed

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The Battle of Athens, Tennessee As Recently As 1946, American Citizens Were Forced To Take Up Arms As A Last Resort Against Corrupt Government Officials.

The Freedom Pledge

The Red Neck War - Virginia Coal Miners

JPFO Files Amicus Brief for Heller Case

GOA Brief in Heller Case

JPFO Alert: March 24th 2008

A sober assessment about Heller vs. D.C.

Attorney Daniel Schmutter, author of the JPFO Amicus Curiae brief, attended the oral arguments and shares his observations on the possible Supreme court ruling expected in June.

In the mean time,you may want to put the champagne away.

Go to - http://www.jpfo.org/pdf/jpfo-release.pdf

Note also these allied articles - JPFO's Amicus Brief - http://www.jpfo.org/pdf/jpfo-amicus-brief.pdf

Transcript of Oral Arguments - http://www.jpfo.org/pdf/heller-sct-tr.pdf

Interview with Edwin Vieira on the Heller case - sound file -
http://www.jpfo.org/media-sound/vieira-heller.mp3
Transcript -
http://www.jpfo.org/pdf/Vieira-interview-transcript.pdf

 

Militia, Standing Armies, and the Second Amendment
Some Perspectives from the American Revolution

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1495

 

 

 

 

 

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them...."

Quoted from Joseph Story* in, “Commentaries on the Constitution” (1833). 

* Former Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

 

 

"...The one thing that is absolute is that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal and individual right to keep and bear arms, and prohibits government from disarming the people...."

Quoted from: Silveira v. Lockyer - Dissent by: Judge Kozinski.

 

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The Battle of Bunker Hill - June 17, 1775 

 

August 1 and 2 mark the sixty-second anniversary of the Battle of Athens, Tennessee