The Natural Rights of Americans – Part Two

“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.”

The common belief today is that the Second Amendment was created to allow the American People the ability to hunt for food or defend their homes from the aboriginal people during the early days of European colonization, but the historical intent is more illuminating.

The arguments for the Second Amendment were to provide the People of the nation the means to defend themself against unlawful violence and, more importantly, the ability to contest attempts by a tyrannical government to strip away the Natural Rights of the People. The principle emanates from the framers of the Constitution, individuals who had recently secured independence for the People of the thirteen United States. Why? The framers sought to secure and assure the People that they would never again live under the demands and control of a overpowering and tyrannical central government.

By nature, the People are equally free and independent and have inalienable Natural Rights. Rights that derive from Nature’s Creator which cannot, by any compact established by any individual, or group of individuals, deprive or divest future generations their life, liberty, or property, without due process. For all political power is bestowed upon, and thus derived from the people, such that no government shall define the People, for it is the People who shall define the government. Finally, no government of a free People can be preserved, but by a strong devotion to integrity, restraint, discipline, economy, virtue, and by frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles put forth in the Constitution.