john Locke. We are given rights from nature or God (Natural law), rather than from an the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. We can see this in the US Declaration of Independence:
"....all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Frédéric Bastiat, also a believer in Natural Rights, explained what the law is:
"The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all."
"Each of us has a natural right - from God - to defend his person, his liberty, and his property."
Bastiat was after Locke and the US Founding Fathers, but his answer is better than any other.
The second Amendment.
Enlightenment philosophers, like John Locke, influenced the colonies by promoting ideas of natural rights, government based on consent of the governed, and the social contract theory. Locke's work, such as his Second Treatise of Government, provided intellectual justification for the colonists' desire for independence and influenced the drafting of important colonial documents such as the Declaration of Independence.
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The Second Amendment
In Search of the Second Amendment was created on 2006-12-19.
Second Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland happened in 1941.
Yes Thomas Jefferson wrote the Second Amendment
It took seven years for the second amendment to be ratified.
Second amendment I don't think that the second amendment gives the right to keep and bear arms. People already had that right. The second amendment states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infirnged.
The second amendment, listed here: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.
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