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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.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 2, 1791...
• By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia'
  he 'security' of the nation, and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms', our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy....
• Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
  -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution....
• The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state.
  That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach....
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitutio
  either is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence....
• Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms.
  [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them....
• Why aren't the members of the NRA required to do weekend National Guard Duty?
  That is a well regulated militia....
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....