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What motive did the Founding Fathers have for adding the right to bear arms into the Constitution?

to drive up the cost of weapons and ammunition to ensure that the government would have a strong national military
to make sure people could defend themselves against the government***
to try to get the delegates from the southern states to ratify the Constitution

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None are particularly accurate, but they were concerned with allowing the citizens to protect and defend themselves against the government.
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Answer:

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