The 2nd ammendment

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Date The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment or Amendment II of the Constitution of the United States of America is the part of the Bill of Rights that protects and recognizes the right to keep and bear arms from violation by the federal government . This is also considered as one of the most contentious right of American people enshrined in the Bill of Rights . The United States Supreme Court has held that a possession of firearm breaches the Second Amendment

Historical Background

The second Amendment

text is very clear to most of us , 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 (Second Amendment to the U .S . Constitution . When the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson , he recognized `unalienable rights , which included life as well as liberty . These two rights are as well called natural rights , and are believed to have been given to man by nature or God and these rights can not be lawfully denied (Gottlieb 72 . During the month in which the Declaration of Independence was written , Thomas Jefferson had written a model constitution for the state of Virginia which stipulated that no free man shall be denied the use of firearms (Gollieb , 68 . The American founding fathers had personal experienced the pain of being occupied by the British troops and they understood how it felt to...