Which Statement Explains Why the Interpretation of the Second Amendment

question 47

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains why the interpretation of the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms is controversial?

• A)Most of the other rights in the Bill of Rights are collective rights.
• B)The text of the amendment refers only to "well-regulated militias."
• C)Guns were relatively new inventions at the time the amendment was written.
• D)Several of the original thirteen states never ratified by the Second Amendment.

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