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• The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history
  concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner....
• The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  -- The Constitution of the United States of America Amendment 9, 1791...
• The Second Amendment doesn't grant the right to keep and bear arms.
  You already have that right. The Constitution just prohibits the government from taking it away from you....
• Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
  -- "M.T. Cicero", in a newspaper letter of 1788 touching the "militia" referred to in the Second Amendment to the Constitution....
• RIP: The U.S. Constitution--one amendment at a time.
• In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dolla
  he right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law....
• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
  or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pre...
• The Constitution of the United States guarantees every individual the right to make a damn fool of himself -- in public or private, however he chooses.
  -- Solomon Sho...
• No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime
  unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public dange...