Over the last two days, I've outlined that the United States Constitution should be interpreted only as it was written, and only as the writers intended, without taking into consideration the current societal trends. I've shown the original intent of rights secured, not granted, by the Constitution. Today I want to provide a few quotes from the people who lived and wrote the Constitution and the Second Amendment.

James Wilson:

Homicide is enjoined [REQUIRED] when it is necessary for the defense of one's person or house. It is the great natural law of self-preservation which, as we have seen, cannot be repealed or superceeded or suspended by any human institution....Every man's house is deemed, by the law, to be his castle; and the law, while it invests him with the power, places on him the duty of the commanding officer.

St. George Tucker, a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and a federal judge under President James Madison:

The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

Chancellor James Kent, one of two "fathers of American jurisprudence:"

The municipal law of our country has likewise left with individuals the exercise of the natural right of self defense. The right of self defense is founded in the law of nature, and is not, and cannot be, superseded by the law of society.

Not convinced yet? I'll post more views of the authors and signers of the Constitution next week.

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