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Right to Arms in American Colonies Predated Bill of Rights
AmmoLand ^ | July 21, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 07/28/2023 5:31:50 AM PDT by marktwain

New evidence has surfaced which indicates Englishmen in the American colonies had the right to keep and bear arms before the right was codified in England. In 1606, King James I granted perpetual rights to arms for the Virginia colonies, which covered what would become the southern colonies during the 1600s. From The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900, by David Kopel and Joseph Greenlee, Law review article, 165 pages, 2021.

 In the early history section of the article, one startling fact revealed was the Royal Charter of King James  I, in 1606, granted to members of the Virginia Charter, perpetual rights to:

bring “sufficient Shipping, and Furniture of Armour, Weapons, Ordinance, Powder, Victual, and other things necessary for the said Plantations and for their Use and Defence there.”

The rights were granted to all settlers of the Virginia colony.

The Charter of New England colonies were granted the same rights. The two charters covered all of what would become the original 13 colonies except for the middle region which contained New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey. Those colonies were originally part of New Netherland, and were conquered by England in 1664.

The English Bill of Rights was enacted by Parliament in 1689, just over a hundred years before the American Bill of Rights was ratified as part of the American Constitution. Scholars have focused on the American Bill of Rights as deriving from the English Bill of Rights, which was codified by the act of parliament in 1689. The King had granted perpetual rights to Englishmen in what would become the Southern and, later, New England colonies. The right to arms was stronger in the American colonies than in England, partly because arms were such a necessity of life

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The right to arms was well established in the American colonies long before Parliament passed the English Bill of Rights.
1 posted on 07/28/2023 5:31:50 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

As a God given right, it predates all.


2 posted on 07/28/2023 5:41:26 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

Yep


3 posted on 07/28/2023 5:47:19 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: marktwain

This is the difference between the US and virtually every other country on earth. The US recognizes that rights are not granted by a king, prince, emperor, or government but by God himself and we are born with those rights.

Governments can only take away your rights, not grant them.


4 posted on 07/28/2023 5:50:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: marktwain

Luke 22:36...
From the comments at your link.
Thanks Dean


5 posted on 07/28/2023 5:59:32 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: marktwain

It’s sad to think we had more gun rights under the tyrant King George than under the Democrats.


6 posted on 07/28/2023 6:11:03 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: marktwain

bkmk


7 posted on 07/28/2023 6:15:54 AM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: vikingd00d

Not really, they tried to ban Gunpowder.


8 posted on 07/28/2023 7:06:49 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: marktwain

“New evidence”, yet their source is from 2021 publication?


9 posted on 07/28/2023 7:24:11 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (.Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It’s simple; throughout history, slaves are not allowed to have arms. Free men not only can but should bear arms. How else can you defend your family, and people?


10 posted on 07/28/2023 7:41:44 AM PDT by ozarker
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To: Big Red Badger

Luke 22...
They counted 2 swords amongst themselves and Jesus said “It is enough.”
The ARmour of God calls out One Sword and it is the Spirit , The Word of God.
Ephesians 6:10
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Act Accordingly


11 posted on 07/28/2023 7:47:27 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: marktwain

You really need to read the 1982 Senate report on the RKBA. I have a paper copy.

It has an excellent article on gun laws before the Revolution. This report is now highly suppressed and out of print from the US government. Here is a copy on line. Read it and you will see why it is highly suppressed. It also has opposing views from anti firearm sources.

https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html

“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”


12 posted on 07/28/2023 8:29:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I read it shortly after it came out.

I have not re-read it recently.

Perhaps I should do so.


13 posted on 07/28/2023 11:10:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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