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The original passage relating to the bearing of arms in James Madison's proposed Bill of Rights

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
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