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The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 by First Unitarian Society of Mpls Social Action Committee
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The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:35

By Thom Hartmann, Truthout/News Analysis

Excerpt: "His first draft for what became the Second Amendment had said: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country [emphasis mine]: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.

But Henry, Mason and others wanted southern states to preserve their slave-patrol militias independent of the federal government. So Madison changed the word "country" to the word "state," and redrafted the Second Amendment into today's form:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State [emphasis mine], the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Little did Madison realize that one day in the future weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a Supreme Court some have called dysfunctional, would use his slave patrol militia amendment to protect their "right" to manufacture and sell assault weapons used to murder schoolchildren."

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Tags: Civil Liberties gun violence Legislation/Legal Racism & Ethnic Rights

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