Perhaps this is the reason why it's always a concern when Black Americans decide to take up arms.
HISTORY 101: The 2nd Amendment Exists Because Founding Fathers Wanted To Protect Slavery
Captain Custer (right) of the 5th Cavalry sits with a Confederate prisoner, Lieutenant James B Washington and his slave, in Fair Oaks, VA, 1862. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Ever wonder why exactly the Second Amendment of the Unites States Constitution, granting every citizen the right to arm themselves and organize militias, was ever written? The answer is a pretty simple one that conservatives do not want you to know about.
The passage was not written to protect American citizens from the power of the government. It was written to protect the practice of black slavery during an extremely and racially tense time in American history.
Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were very concerned about this new document’s possible ability to take away the power of individual citizens to protect and regulate their property, namely, their slaves.
It goes back earlier than that, however. In 1755 and 1757, legislation was created in Georgia that required all white males between the ages of 18 and 45 to patrol as members of a slave policing militia. These militias kept plantation slaves in check, going so far as to rally once a month to inspect the living quarters of all slaves in their delegated jurisdiction. Militia members were specifically instructed to keep an eye out for signs of possible slave uprisings.
Dr. Carl T. Bogus said this in the 1998 University of California Law Review:
“The Georgia statutes required patrols, under the direction of commissioned militia officers, to examine every plantation each month and authorized them to search ‘all Negro Houses for offensive Weapons and Ammunition’ and to apprehend and give twenty lashes to any slave found outside plantation grounds.”
If you’re like me, you’ve begged the question many times, why didn’t they (slaves) just organize and take over? Well, now you know. Slaves and plantations were heavily patrolled by these militias, whose sole purpose was to ensure the continuation of slavery. This is not to say that slave rebellion was not a regular occurrence; those captured never gave up on the chance of freedom.
When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, one part in particular stood out to pro-slavery politicians like founding fathers: James Madison, George Mason, an owner of over 300 slaves, and devout Christian, Patrick Henry, who was pro-slavery despite recognizing it as an immoral practice.
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress alone would have supervision and control over the armed militias, and anything else that falls under the state “welfare” guidelines. The section states that it is Congress’ duty to “provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
This passage was seen as extremely dangerous to slave owners because it gave Congress the power to absorb all sub-militias into one federal organization, working for a federal agenda. This would spell disaster for slave-owners who would be at the mercy of any future anti-slavery legislation that would have the militias doing the opposite of their intended goal. They could actually be ordered to assist in the freeing of captive slaves.
1860 United States Metropolitan museum (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)
These founders weren’t exactly paranoid, as that exact thing happened just 12 years earlier when John Murray, also known as Lord Dunsmore, the governor of the province of New York, offered freedom to any slave who could escape and join his military forces. During the Revolutionary War, British General Henry Clinton carried on the practice, and General Washington comprised his army of white soldiers, as well as countless freed slaves.
So just eleven years later, when this newly formed constitution came about, those southern politicians found themselves in a pretty precarious situation. Patrick Henry said this at the ratification convention in 1788:
“Let me here call your attention to that part [Article 1, Section 8 of the proposed Constitution] which gives the Congress power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States….”
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HISTORY 101: The 2nd Amendment Exists Because Founding Fathers Wanted To Protect Slavery
Captain Custer (right) of the 5th Cavalry sits with a Confederate prisoner, Lieutenant James B Washington and his slave, in Fair Oaks, VA, 1862. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Ever wonder why exactly the Second Amendment of the Unites States Constitution, granting every citizen the right to arm themselves and organize militias, was ever written? The answer is a pretty simple one that conservatives do not want you to know about.
The passage was not written to protect American citizens from the power of the government. It was written to protect the practice of black slavery during an extremely and racially tense time in American history.
Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were very concerned about this new document’s possible ability to take away the power of individual citizens to protect and regulate their property, namely, their slaves.
It goes back earlier than that, however. In 1755 and 1757, legislation was created in Georgia that required all white males between the ages of 18 and 45 to patrol as members of a slave policing militia. These militias kept plantation slaves in check, going so far as to rally once a month to inspect the living quarters of all slaves in their delegated jurisdiction. Militia members were specifically instructed to keep an eye out for signs of possible slave uprisings.
Dr. Carl T. Bogus said this in the 1998 University of California Law Review:
“The Georgia statutes required patrols, under the direction of commissioned militia officers, to examine every plantation each month and authorized them to search ‘all Negro Houses for offensive Weapons and Ammunition’ and to apprehend and give twenty lashes to any slave found outside plantation grounds.”
If you’re like me, you’ve begged the question many times, why didn’t they (slaves) just organize and take over? Well, now you know. Slaves and plantations were heavily patrolled by these militias, whose sole purpose was to ensure the continuation of slavery. This is not to say that slave rebellion was not a regular occurrence; those captured never gave up on the chance of freedom.
When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, one part in particular stood out to pro-slavery politicians like founding fathers: James Madison, George Mason, an owner of over 300 slaves, and devout Christian, Patrick Henry, who was pro-slavery despite recognizing it as an immoral practice.
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress alone would have supervision and control over the armed militias, and anything else that falls under the state “welfare” guidelines. The section states that it is Congress’ duty to “provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.”
This passage was seen as extremely dangerous to slave owners because it gave Congress the power to absorb all sub-militias into one federal organization, working for a federal agenda. This would spell disaster for slave-owners who would be at the mercy of any future anti-slavery legislation that would have the militias doing the opposite of their intended goal. They could actually be ordered to assist in the freeing of captive slaves.
1860 United States Metropolitan museum (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)
These founders weren’t exactly paranoid, as that exact thing happened just 12 years earlier when John Murray, also known as Lord Dunsmore, the governor of the province of New York, offered freedom to any slave who could escape and join his military forces. During the Revolutionary War, British General Henry Clinton carried on the practice, and General Washington comprised his army of white soldiers, as well as countless freed slaves.
So just eleven years later, when this newly formed constitution came about, those southern politicians found themselves in a pretty precarious situation. Patrick Henry said this at the ratification convention in 1788:
“Let me here call your attention to that part [Article 1, Section 8 of the proposed Constitution] which gives the Congress power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States….”
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Not really....it helped protect the institution ..... but the 2nd amendment didnt break really new legal ground
you were saying?
So basically what's happening today with police is just passed down behavior. 
