Common Sense in the Second Amendment : Eighteenth-Century English and the U.S. Bill of Rights

Analyzes the words ""infringe"" and ""abridge"" to boost an accurate understanding of the Second Amendment. The wording of the first and second amendments was shaped by the period when the Bill of Rights was created and ratified and also previous centuries of English usage. The language of 1789 should be included in ongoing discussion of gun control.