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--- documents:external:secondamendment2 [2018/03/26 10:36] – Oliver Wolcott
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-[I]t is certainly beyond human art and sophistry, to prove the British subjects, to whom the //privilege// of possessing arms is expressly recognized by the Bill of Rights, and, who live in a province where the law requires them to be equip'd with //arms//, &c. are guilty of an //illegal act//, in calling upon one another to be provided with them, as the //law directs//.((Boston Gazette, and Country Journal at 2, col. 1 (Jan. 30, 1769), //quoted in// Halbrook, //Right to Bear// at 6; //see Boston under Military Rule, 1768-1769, as Revealed in a Journal of the Times// 61 (Oliver Morton Dickerson ed., 1936) (reprinting same passage from Boston Evening Post (Apr. 3, 1769)).))
+[I]t is certainly beyond human art and sophistry, to prove the British subjects, to whom the //privilege// of possessing arms is expressly recognized by the Bill of Rights, and, who live in a province where the law requires them to be equip'd with //arms//, &c. are guilty of an //illegal act//, in calling upon one another to be provided with them, as the //law directs//.((Boston Gazette, and Country Journal at 2, col. 1 (Jan. 30, 1769), //quoted in// Halbrook, //Right to Bear// at 6; //see Boston under Military Rule, 1768-1769, as Revealed in a Journal of the Times// 61 (Oliver Morton Dickerson ed., 1936) (reprinting same passage from Boston Evening Post (Apr. 3, 1769) ).))
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