2 amendment Quote by William Rawle

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

— William Rawle

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience;…

— Samuel Adams

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

— James Madison

The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs…

— St. George Tucker

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be…

— James Madison

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent…

— Samuel Adams

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

— Laurence Tribe

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment,…

— Clarence Thomas

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that…

— Thomas Paine

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law.…

— Rick Scott