"A select militia defined as only the privileged class entitled to keep and bear arms was considered an anathema to a free society, in the same that Americans denounced select spokesman approved by the government as the only class entitled to freedom of the press."
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United States Bill of Rights, in That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Revised, quoted by Stephen P. Halbrook in p. 91
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