The real reason for the Second Amendment

A historian argues that the real rationale for the Second Amendment was the demand by southern states that they would have the arms to crush slave uprisings.

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In her new book, Anderson, the chair of African American studies at Emory University, shares a history of the Second Amendment that few of us ever heard, arguing that it was included in the U.S. Constitution after demands by slave states for a constitutional right to form militias to put down slave revolts. Anderson details how Virginia's Patrick Henry and George Mason expressed fears that the federal government would not help them defeat slave uprisings, and demanded that the Second Amendment be included so they could deal with such revolts themselves — an acute concern in the slave-owning oligarchy of that time.

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/12/sch...ond-amendment/

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