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Course: Constitution 101 Sandbox > Unit 2
Lesson 9: 4.9 Second Amendment: Text and History- Text of the Second Amendment
- What did the Second Amendment say?
- Interactive Constitution Essay: Common Interpretation: Second Amendment
- Info Brief: Second Amendment—Text and History: Founding
- Why did the Founding generation think that we needed the Second Amendment?
- What did the term “militia” mean at the Founding?
- What did the founders mean by a “standing army"?
- Info Brief: Second Amendment—Text and History: The Second Founding
- What does the story of Reconstruction teach us about the Second Amendment?
- What does the story of Reconstruction teach us about the Second Amendment?
- Primary Source: Ida B. Wells, Self-Help (1892)
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Why did the Founding generation think that we needed the Second Amendment?
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