Essay On Second Amendment

hrough this paper I will discuss with you and show you that our founding fathers put this amendment into play not only to help protect our freedom but to also show the getting away from the state having to worry about raising up a militia or army to protect its self. Also showing that there was an influence from the English that played into the development of this amendment and how it later played into our passing into what it is today.
So first we see in 1869 that in the English bill of rights there is text and language that is usually interpreted as such, “protecting protestants against disarming of the crown” going on later to say the Protestants can have arms suitable to their defenses and what is allowable by law. This kind of sounds like later down the road it might influence our 2nd amendment. …show more content…
There were modifications as one would expect that worded and made things clearer that power needed to be shifted from the states to the federal government as shown in Article 1 section 8 to be able to raise a standing army. This kind of thing upset a lot of people, mainly the anti-federalist who believed that this proposed constitution would take away from the state’s ability to defend against federal usurpation. The second amend gave up nothing to the anti-federalist wants to limit the power of the federal government and was ultimately accepted because of a unanimous agreement that the federal government should not be able to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms no more than the power to mess with the freedom of speech or prohibit anyone from telling you what you can or cannot believe