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CHAPTER ONE
BRIEF LEGAL HISTORY OF
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
And The Laws Regulating Firearms
T
I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
o fully understand gun rights today in Texas
or the United States, one should start first
at the beginning: the formation document for our
federal government, the United States Constitution.
The Constitution was originally written without
any enumerated guaranteed individual rights. The
Founding Fathers thought it obvious and apparent
that individuals had rights; therefore, there was
no reason to elucidate them in a document that
was supposed to control the government. James
Madison also thought that by naming certain rights,
it would imply that those were the only rights an
individual possessed. After much discussion, and a
complete change of opinion by Madison, the lack
of enumerated rights was remedied in the First
Congressional session and the state ratification
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