USA State Constitutions Providing for Armed Self-Defense
According to the National Archives, “the USA Constitution might never have been ratified if the framers hadn’t promised to add a Bill of Rights. The first ten amendments to the Constitution gave citizens more confidence in the new government and contain many of today’s Americans’ most valued freedoms.” One of those is the Second Amendment:
“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.” THE BILL OF RIGHTS, AMENDMENT II
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Below is the right to keep and bear arms as expressed in each USA state’s constitution: