FD Article #10
by Phil Hider
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) is the sole right enumerated in the Second Amendment of The Constitution. It is one of the unalienable rights endowed by the creator declared in the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. It is the second in a series of admonishments to ALL governments of the United States of America, state and federal, admonishing them to refrain from infringing on those God given, unalienable rights that they already have. The Bill of Rights cannot be amended or subjugated by any government of the United States!
by Phil Hider
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) is the sole right enumerated in the Second Amendment of The Constitution. It is one of the unalienable rights endowed by the creator declared in the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. It is the second in a series of admonishments to ALL governments of the United States of America, state and federal, admonishing them to refrain from infringing on those God given, unalienable rights that they already have. The Bill of Rights cannot be amended or subjugated by any government of the United States!
This truth is reinforced by the preamble to the Bill of Rights, the tenth amendment, and the Federalist Papers. The second amendment is a summary, as are all of the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights, of many writings by the Founding Fathers.
The primary source of information supporting the RKBA is the Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. According to noted political historian, Clinton Rossiter, the Federalist Papers are, “the first and still the most authoritative commentary on the constitution of the United States.
The primary papers supporting the individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms are papers 28, 29 and 46 which should be read and understood. The second amendment contains only twenty seven (27) words, which summarize the writings of three or more papers in the Federalist Papers, amounting to many thousands of words. One cannot work backwards from 27 words to recreate the philosophy and insight of many thousands of words, and get true understanding of those original writings. If the reader has not read and understood the writings of Hamilton, Madison and Jay in the Federalist Papers as well as the writings of Webster, Paine, Jefferson and many other notable Founding Fathers, the reader will not have an understanding of the meaning of this amendment.
The RKBA 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.”
Well regulated means orderly and well run. This emanates from the days when clocks were operated by “clockwork” and had a “regulator” to make them run accurately. Thus a “well regulated” militia would run like clockwork. “being necessary to the security of a free state.” The Founding Fathers and the great philosophers before them stated that in order for a people to remain free, they must be able to defend themselves through the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
The Founding Fathers explain that without the Right To Keep and Bear Arms, the freedom of the people will be in jeopardy by tyranny, as was proven in 20th century Europe (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc.). Many tens of millions of innocent people have been murdered, during my lifetime alone, by their own governments, simply for being politically incorrect! The word “infringed” is particularly interesting. The Founding Fathers could have used the word “denied”. Had they done so, a devious government could have allowed a citizen just one ineffective weapon of the government’s choosing, thus satisfying the constitutional requirement. The unqualified word “infringed” admonishes that no infringement of any kind can be in effect. Remember the Founding Fathers’ literacy and use of words. All arms available to the military must be allowed to the citizenry, and no restrictive measures can be used to infringe upon; use, type or quantity; or to have restrictive taxes, geographical infringements or other infringing conditions. Thus any laws restricting the acquisition of arms by non-felon residents of the USA are unconstitutional.
Supreme Court Justice Brown (1897) delivered the following opinion;
The primary source of information supporting the RKBA is the Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. According to noted political historian, Clinton Rossiter, the Federalist Papers are, “the first and still the most authoritative commentary on the constitution of the United States.
The primary papers supporting the individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms are papers 28, 29 and 46 which should be read and understood. The second amendment contains only twenty seven (27) words, which summarize the writings of three or more papers in the Federalist Papers, amounting to many thousands of words. One cannot work backwards from 27 words to recreate the philosophy and insight of many thousands of words, and get true understanding of those original writings. If the reader has not read and understood the writings of Hamilton, Madison and Jay in the Federalist Papers as well as the writings of Webster, Paine, Jefferson and many other notable Founding Fathers, the reader will not have an understanding of the meaning of this amendment.
The RKBA 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.”
Well regulated means orderly and well run. This emanates from the days when clocks were operated by “clockwork” and had a “regulator” to make them run accurately. Thus a “well regulated” militia would run like clockwork. “being necessary to the security of a free state.” The Founding Fathers and the great philosophers before them stated that in order for a people to remain free, they must be able to defend themselves through the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
The Founding Fathers explain that without the Right To Keep and Bear Arms, the freedom of the people will be in jeopardy by tyranny, as was proven in 20th century Europe (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc.). Many tens of millions of innocent people have been murdered, during my lifetime alone, by their own governments, simply for being politically incorrect! The word “infringed” is particularly interesting. The Founding Fathers could have used the word “denied”. Had they done so, a devious government could have allowed a citizen just one ineffective weapon of the government’s choosing, thus satisfying the constitutional requirement. The unqualified word “infringed” admonishes that no infringement of any kind can be in effect. Remember the Founding Fathers’ literacy and use of words. All arms available to the military must be allowed to the citizenry, and no restrictive measures can be used to infringe upon; use, type or quantity; or to have restrictive taxes, geographical infringements or other infringing conditions. Thus any laws restricting the acquisition of arms by non-felon residents of the USA are unconstitutional.
Supreme Court Justice Brown (1897) delivered the following opinion;
"The law is perfectly well settled that the first ten amendments to the constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were not intended to lay down any novel principles of government, but simply to embody certain guarantees and immunities which we had inherited from our English ancestors, and which had (existed) from time immemorial...“
Hamilton states in federalist paper 29:
“If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens...”
Madison states in federalist paper 46:
“To these (an army under a dictator) would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties etc. It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could be ever conquered by such a proportion of regular troops...”
Hamilton states in paper 28:
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government...The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair...”
If the United States is to remain a free state, then the people must enforce the Constitution.
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