OPINION: We're all entitled to due process
Many people agree that one of the reasons for the second amendment to the United States Constitution, the right to bear arms, is to protect citizens from the government itself. An unarmed populace would be at the mercy of a government that wanted to establish a king rather than a president. The patriots who fought for our freedom from an oppressive English king could not have done so without their weapons.
Those same patriots knew the rights they fought for needed to be stated in the Constitution. In 1791, the Constitution was amended to state those rights, all of which are included in the concept that a “person” cannot be deprived of liberty or property without “due process of law.”
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