A “well-regulated” militia simply meant that the processes for activating, training, and deploying the militia in official service should be efficient and orderly, ...

You find the most interesting things scrounging around in the National Archives' displays of old documents. A draft of the Bill of Rights recently caught my eye. It seems on June 8, 1789, James ...

Likewise, the Second Amendment offers no safe harbor, referring to “a well regulated Militia,” which has been traditionally limited to official national guard units subject to the oversight of public ...

Because if a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, it follows that a state lacking such a militia is either insecure, or unfree, or possibly both.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” What exactly defines “well regulated”?

EVER SINCE the Colorado school shooting put the debate about guns on the front burner of American discourse, the advocates of a guaranteed individual right to own firearms, led by the National Rifl… ...

Well then, we need to anchor them in the well regulated militia — words that do. I spent 11 years of my life around arms of all shapes and sizes; from 9mm handguns to Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.

But even a well organized militia was not adequate when confronting major powers. The need for a standing army and navy became evident when the United States again fought Great Britain, and then ...

The writer quotes the Second Amendment reference to a “well-regulated militia” but only provides a definition for the word “militia.” ...

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.