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Here is a very good video by The Deacon (formerly known as The War Drummer):
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The foremost authority on the meaning and proper interpretation of the Second Amendment, and the US Constitution in general, is Edwin Vieira. He has written a book, titled something like Sovereignty and the Sword (I have the book but it's at my office. I'm probably off on the title.), and numerous articles about the Second Amend.
If you put his name into a search engine you will come across his archive of articles. I urge you to do so. He is an incredible thinker and writer, and the most articulate and accurate authority on the limitations and disabilities imposed on the national and state governments by the US Constitution, and each State's Constitution, including on the subject of the coining of money, so-called.
In short, the Second Amend. secures to the people, individually as a person, and thus collectively as a "body politic" the right to keep and bear weapons in order to secure the security of each State and thus the Nation as a whole.
The creator of this video has confused the issue a bit, including by introducing the concept of "body politic" to the subject. He seems to mean the collective, the Nation as a whole, when he does that. But I'm not sure. However, he is correct to point out that the right to bear arms is directly linked to the security of "a State" and as such each able bodied person (originally men) was required to keep arms, was to be regulated, i.e., trained and accoutered (equipped), by the State in which each person lived and called into service in times of a threat to the security of a State(s).
It is the governor of a state that could call forth the militia of a State. But in times of national emergency the POTUS could call forth the militia of the States, in cooperation with the governor(s), into national service.
Today, and for many, many years now, there is no militia in the original sense of the Second Amd. Rather, each Stare has what is often referred to as an "organized militia", set up by a state's Consitution and legislation. The organized militia is essentially the national guard of the state. The "unorganized militia" so-to-speak is an oxymoron and does not exist as it did at the time of the ratification of the Constitution and its first ten amendments.
However, the point remains that We the People, not only have the right, but the duty, to be armed. Under the Second Amnd we do not have the right
per se to go about creating small bands of "militia" that are not regulated by the state. The right to protect ourselves from a rogue, corrupt and unconstitutionally functioning state, i.e. Government, derives from natural law, and is well stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Much, much more can be said in this topic.
ADD: The title of Vieira's book is
The Sword and Sovereignty. (I was close.)
Here's the link to Vieira's archives.
http://edwinvieira.com/
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