The United States Constitution is the Supreme Law of the United States of America. Ratified in 1789, it portrays the national frame of the government. The Constitution is initiated with the Bill of Rights, which is the first ten amendments to the constitution. It offers general protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution is said to have been strongly influenced by English documents such as the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and later on the Magna Carta. The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights states: “A well regarded militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Since it becoming a declared part of the Constitution on December 15th, 1791, it has caused such a controversy between citizens of the United States.
The amount of controversy that has been surrounding the Second Amendment has to do with how many diverse groups of people interpret the amendments differently. It is not clearly stated in the amendment whether it protects the state’s right to establish a militia or whether it also guarantees the individual citizen’s rights to own weapons, which is why it is so strongly argued today.…show more content… It was granted in the English Bill of Rights that, “By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law.” Because the Constitution was said to have been based off of the English Bill of Rights, it is assumed that they are to share the same principalities. While the English Bill of Rights does protect this right to bear arms, you can assume that when the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution was written, it was intended to shadow their principle of the right to bear