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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
Published
Aug. 18 2019
5:12AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
Nicolaus Mills
nmills@sarahlawrence.edu
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