Your Bill of Rights – Second Amendment: The Origins of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Grade
6-9
9-12
Lesson Duration

From TIME

This video (03:22) from the Your Bill of Rights series asks: Why did the framers of the U.S. constitution demand the right of the people to keep and bear arms?

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080345_2080344_2080372,00.html

Source

"In this series of ten short videos, TIME brings to life the words of the Founding Fathers and explores how these deeply felt ideas about liberty and property have evolved into the amendments as we interpret them today."