The Context Of The Second Amendment

Part I of Essay
The interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America has been a topic of controversy since its acceptance over two-hundred years ago. This controversy stems from the fact that the amendment was written for reasons for the most par ....

Part II of Essay
.... have concluded that the right is corporate rather that individual”(Hook, 30). Meaning that the right is giving to the state government not to individual citizens. Others argue that it does give people the right to bear arms, but only if you belong to a certain group. This group is defined by the beginning preamble to the Second Amendment, ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State'. This preamble is set out to regulate the other half of the Amendment. What is a militia? “[A] militia is a body of men e ....