John Adams wrote the 'right to keep and to bear arms' into the Massachusetts Constitution a decade before it appeared in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
that had made it difficult for citizens to carry concealed weapons.
The Massachusetts Constitution, written by John Adams in his Quincy, Mass., law office in 1779, was the first document to feature the phrase "the right to keep and to bear arms." That was a decade before it was included in the U.S. Bill of Rights.James Madison argued on behalf of an armed citizenry as a bulwark to federal overreach in Federalist No. 46, published in 1788 as debate took place over shape of the new American government.
"The subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law," the document declared in the immediate aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, which overthrew King James II, the last Catholic English monarch. Adams created modern constitutional government in the office of his simple 17th-century saltbox-style colonial home — better known today as the John Quincy Adams Birthplace.
John Adams himself was born in another saltbox-style home right next door, a similar structure but unadorned with paint. The plot of land with the two original period homesThe John Quincy Adams Birthplace, part of the Adams National Historical Park. John Adams wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, with the first use of the phrase the "right to keep and to bear arms," in his office here in 1779; it's the the room located inside the window on the ground floor, next to the door.
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