What do the Federalist Papers say about the right to bear arms?
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 29: “[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.” James Madison agreed. In Federalist No.
