2nd Amendment facts
While investigating facts about 2nd Amendment, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On November 2nd, 1920, 8 million women voted in the U.S. elections for the first time in history.
Madison's original draft of the 2nd amendment contained a conscientious objector clause, allowing people to opt-out of the 'well-regulated militias' on spiritual grounds.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about 2nd Amendment I managed to collect.
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A Chinese immigrant exercised her 2nd amendment rights to protect herself from a thug
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There was a fully automatic rifle called the Girandoni rifle with a magazine capacity of 20 rounds that was invented in 1779, 8 years before the 2nd amendment was written.
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Prior to the 1970's the 2nd Amendment wasn't interpreted as an individual's right to bear arms, and that it has an entirely unnecessary comma.
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The 2nd amendment doesn’t give you the right to own a gun. Alexander Hamilton explains “regulated militia” in Federalist No. 29 of the Federalist papers.
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The US didn't field a standing army until 1792, and the 2nd amendment existed in order to maintain the "well regulated militias" that were needed without one.
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The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in 2008 that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
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The 2nd Amendment was ratified largely to protect slavery and prevent slave revolts, by preserving Virginian and Georgian state militias that primarily served as "slave patrols"
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The United States 2nd amendment is an inalienable right and was penned by the Founders in the Bill of Rights.
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In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the 2nd Amendment, the right to bear arms, is an individually held right that is interdependent of membership in a militia. The Court reasoned that threats to freedom come from both invaders and tyrants.
