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How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment

ORIGINAL SIN

Southern aristocrats wanted armed militias mainly to control their slaves. So they wanted language in the new nation's constitution protecting that right.

Nicolaus Mills
Nicolaus Mills
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Nicolaus Mills

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