"In recent years it has been suggested that……" — Stephen Halbrook

In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects… - Stephen Halbrook

"In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis."

— Stephen Halbrook

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