James Madison intended for the Second Amendment to prohibit the types of arms restrictions which the British government had sometimes imposed on Catholics. Subscribe for unlimited access to The ...

As a compromise, James Madison put forth what would become the Second Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right ...

Probably because Scalia didn’t want to admit what James Madison — the author of the Amendment — had in mind. Here is Madison’s first draft of the Second Amendment: ...

Scene: In 1789, two years after the U.S. Constitution was signed, U.S. Representative James Madison prepared to submit to Congress a "Bill of Rights," which he proposed should be added to the ...

Indeed, you only have to read the Second Amendment to see what a fraud it’s become. Here it is, all 27 words: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the ...

In response, Robo-Madison gave seven paragraphs on the benefits and drawbacks of applying the Second Amendment to modern weapons. It was actually pretty nuanced, and since James Madison was a ...

James Madison, for one, ... The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power that the Constitution gave the federal government, ...

Unfortunately, the original text and intent of the Framers of the Amendment is not clear. When in 1789 James Madison introduced seventeen amendments to the Constitution, one eventually became the ...

It’s only a sentence long; 27 words that barely take up a full line on the Bill of Rights. Here’s a look at the Second Amendment, its phrases parsed and placed in legal and historical context ...

One reason the First and Second Amendments are good constitutional neighbors is that they both protect religious liberty. James Madison intended for the Second Amendment to prohibit the types of ...