...liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. Section 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of D-2 peace, should be avoided as dangerous...

...and ought not to be violated. Seventeenth, That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated Militia composed of the body of the...free State. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection...

...established by law." Ibid., pp. 442-3. 12. "That the people have a right to keep and bear arms: that a well regulated militia composed of the body of the...free state. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection...

...of the following language: That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, naturaJ, uid safe defence for a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to...

...is the same as in colonial times, and was the basis for the Second Amendment: "That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."...

...New Hampshire (1784 and 1792), and Maryland (1776), respectively, stipulated "that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained...proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State," "A well-regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure defence of a State," and "that a well-regulated...

...militia of " almost every staW; during the revolutionary war ; and, thus vol. i. ' • 3 1 « that a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural^aadsafe defence of a free state," were thought to be dangerous to the state governments. The...

...Declaration of Rights of 1776, Article XVIII, came to be the prototype of other state bills of rights: "That a well regulated Militia, composed of the Body of...trained to Arms, is the proper, natural, and safe Defense of a free State; that standing Armies, in Time of Peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to...

...dis-information. ten what our Founding Fathers have stated about the second. Former President James Madison — "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country"; former vice president Eldbridge Garry — "I ask...

...should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power (1777).37 Virginia: That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of...trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to...