Question

1. What do you think the second amendment (as originally written) referred to? Militias? Or Individual rights to guns? Why?

2. How do you think the founding fathers would have felt about teacher-led prayers be allowed in schools? Or what of the Pledge of Allegiance--should "under God" be taken out? And what do you think o these issues? Explain your answers

Answer 1

1.) The right to keep and bear arms (the RKBA) had been considered an individual right (for adult English men, anyway) long before the U.S. Constitution existed. And it was a complaint of the colonists during the revolution, that England was trying to systematically disarm the American colonists, depriving them of long-held rights as free English subjects.

The Second Amendment doesn't state the RKBA is an individual right. Almost none of the clauses in the Bill of Rights are framed that way. And we think little of that, because it was never an issue—until relatively recently, when widespread gun control became a political issue to one particular political party.

The Bill of Right's preamble makes clear why that phrasing is that way.

2.) Not sure about that one

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