America's Constitution
by Akhil Reed Amar · first published 2005
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…refer to guns being allowed inside of a well-regulated militia. This is accomplished by the states' National Guards. It was not intended to mean that each person gets to have a gun. This, according to America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhail Reed Amar. Great read, it walks the reader in a novel-type way through each part of the Constitution. But, we've expanded the 'meaning' of the Constitution several times in ways…
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