미국 수정헌법 2조와 자연권 사상 : 무기소지권의 역사․사상적 배경과 목적 = The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Natural Rights-The Historical and Ideological Meaning of the Right to keep and bear arms-

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The Second Amendment the U.S. Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free States, the right of the people of to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The Founding Fathers believed that the right to possess arms was so necessary that they included it in the Bill of Rights in 1791.
This article contains two distinct but interrelated theses. One is the English origins of the right to keep and bear arms, especially focusing upon two political philosophers, William Blackstone and John Locke. Another is the historical evidence surrounding the Revolutionary War and the adoption of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers believed that the right to possess arms had a fundamental purpose, recognizing those essential rights of life, liberty, and property which inhered in Anglo-Saxon freedom, and which Americans brought with them from the mother country. They considered this right as the paramount right by which all other rights could be protected. Furthermore, they saw this right the last resort of the people if the checks and balances established in the Constitution ever failed to protect the right of the people from tyranny. In sum, the right to possess arms was an inalienable natural right for self-defence serving as a deterrent against government oppression, thus should be respected as a crucial to the maintenance of freedom even in the future.