Militia

     Officially, a militia is part of the organized armed forces of a country that is called upon only in an emergency. There have been paramilitary groups with revolutionary ideas throughout America’s history, but today’s militia movement is a new more organized and violent presence (Meyers). Today the militia are unofficial citizens’ armies organized by private individuals, usually with antigovernment, far right agendas. They rationalize that the American people need armed

people should be allowed to carry a gun on them. This free county not only for speech and religion, but also allows people to have the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment of the United States was written by our Founding Fathers,“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” (Government). The main purpose of the Second Amendment when our Founding Fathers wrote this amendment was to help the American

were an important part of the militia debate. “Shays’s Rebellion was the largest violent uprising in the new nation’s history, would become the first test of the radical potential of the militia and the right to bear arms in post-Revolutionary America”(Cornell, 31). Shays’s Rebellion revealed a tension in American constitutional theory if the militia was an agent of government authority or a popular system serving as a check on government. The notion that the militia refused to enforce an unjust law

campaign in 1780, the militia proved to be an essential fighting force. By the end of the war, General Washington and other officers in command used the continental militia as support for the regular army, thus proving the militias were a crucial component in achieving victory during the American Revolution. The militia was also required to set aside a portion of their soldiers and form them into new, special companies called minutemen. The minutemen were different from the militia because while the

law. The Second Amendment is significant in this debate, providing the basis upon which those supporting robust gun regulation as fundamental, collective, and civic right and in particular its preamble concreting the usefulness of a well-regulated militia. Emphasis has been placed by gun rights advocates, comparing this to press freedom in enabling citizens to possess "firearms for self-protection, hunting, or to wage revolution against the government itself" in

Gun Rights in America According to The Second Amendment of the Constitution, the citizens of the United States have the right to own and bear arms, in order to form a well-regulated militia for the security of the states. This right has been discussed for decades as an important issue for the American society, and it has been one of the most controversial issues in the second half of the twentieth century until nowadays. This right germinated with the threat to freedom that the standing army of professional

of another domineering government. Mason wrote, “A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state.” If the government had the jurisdiction over citizen’s right to use firearms, then it could disarm them as the British had once done. This led to the creation of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the

The United States Patriot Militia in 1780 was the day of the battle that was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. These militiamen were normal arms-bearing citizens that gave the forward momentum of our country’s development, and without these citizens that stood up for our country, our life may not be as it is today. The topic of gun control has been controversial for years about how it causes more violence, more murders, homicides, etc. The main thing that is being fought about is whether

states:   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.   This amendment was written in the wake of the revolutionary war, when the ability to raise arms

of the Constitution, many dreaded that a standing army, commanded by a centralized government would leave them abandoned without hope. The Constitution contained no checks-and-balances to forbid a standing army or permit states to make their own militias. The Constitution was signed by 39 men from the 12 states embodied at the