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Common Wealth Of Massachusetts Analysis

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The constitution of the common wealth of Massachusetts. https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution Article XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defense. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it. If the law of the land expressly states "armies are dangerous to Liberty" that implies "The people" are responsible for the common defense of their common wealth. What shall they use to provide that defense, shotguns, slingshots, stones? If all other bodies command arms far superior to that of the common people,

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