Article 16 of the Vermont Constitution

[sprucegum]

Thought some of you might enjoy this


Chapter I - Article 16 - Right to bear arms; standing armies; military power subordinate to civil

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State--and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.

 

[ripjack13]

Gotta love them forefathers !!!

 

[Nature Man]

They certainly had a keen perspective on how best to govern a nation. Chuck

 

[Kevin]

Most cons have a similar clause, but the federal mafia ignores them just as it ignores the one in the federal con.

 

[sprucegum]

Most cons have a similar clause, but the federal mafia ignores them just as it ignores the one in the federal con.

Well so far ours is holding up, I can still carry a firearm concealed or open almost anywhere in the state with no permit. The obvious places are excluded, court houses, schools and the like.

 

[Kevin]

Well so far ours is holding up, I can still carry a firearm concealed or open almost anywhere in the state with no permit. The obvious places are excluded, court houses, schools and the like.

That's not the point. You could in NOLA too until they unlawfully went door-to-door confiscating them. Where was the constitution then? Your constitution is no stronger than any other if they get a hard-on to ignore it.

 

[ripjack13]

It's just words on paper...

here's some good reading....

State Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Provisions....
http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/beararms/statecon.htm


The six states without constitutional right keep and bear arms...
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...-without-constitutional-right-keep-bear-arms/

And I'm not surprised by this either....well..maybe by Iowa...but the rest. it's a no brainer...those states suck anyhow.

 

[HomeBody]

They forgot to add Illinois. We had a line in our 1969 updated constitution saying, "The people have the right to bear arms, subject to police power." Sometime in the 80's I think, that line "disappeared" from our constitution. Voted away in the middle of the night by Chicago politicians. Gary