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• That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience
  or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms....
• The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 9, 1791...
• 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...
• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 10, 1791...
• But, sir, the people themselves have it in their power effectually to resist usurpation, without being driven to an appeal of arms.
  An act of usurpation is not obligatory; it is not law...
• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10. (Bill of Rights)...
• The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history
  concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner....
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate.