It is in no small part to Henry’s resistance that the Constitution owes the Second Amendment in particular – the one that promises “the right to keep and bear arms” in order to have “a wellregulated militia” – and it too was, in part, about slavery, because in the South, the militia was understood to be identical with the slave patrols that were constantly on guard.
-Ned Sublette
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