Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes About Second Amendment

Quotes about: Second Amendment

• The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Second Amendment, Obsolete, Amendments

• Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Home, Army, Men

• In my view, if the Court had properly interpreted the Second Amendment, the Court would have said that Amendment was very important when the nation was new, it gave a qualified right to keep and bear arms but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Fighting, Views, Important

• The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Second Amendment, Needs, Arms

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