"Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms"

   "...The veto checks the legislative power and prevents the enactment of laws at times, and again if the President and Congress concur in passing a law the judiciary may decree it invalid, if it transcends the authority given by the Constitution. A law of a state may be annuled by the United States Judiciary, if it is opposed to the treaties, laws, or constitution of the United States.

   "The national government is restrained from granting any title of nobility and bound to support a republican form of government in each the states of the Union. It is restrained from passing any law on the subject of religion, or of the press, or liberty of speech, and treason against the United States is defined to be levying war against the United States or adhering to their enemies giving them aid or comfort, and two witnesses to the same overt act are necessary to conviction. Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms. The right of the people peaceably to assemble for the consideration of every subject matter of government, and to petition for the redress of any real or supposed grievance, is guaranteed by article 1st of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, By that instrument no man can be but once tried for the same offence, nor can he be made to suffer in life, liberty, or property but by due process of law, nor can private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

[A TREATISE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THE JURISDICTION AND DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES. BY DANIEL GARDNER, ESQ. COUNSELLOR AT LAW, TROY, N.Y.: FROM THE PRESS OF N. TUTTLE, CCXXV RIVER-STREET. 1844.]