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单词 right to bear arms
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right to bear arms
d. right to bear arms.
(a) Heraldry. The right to wear or display arms (sense 5a); cf. King of Arms n. Now chiefly historical.From the late 14th cent. the right to bear arms was granted by the Crown or State (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland by the King of Arms and in Scotland by the Lord Lyon King of Arms), and conferred the status of gentleman. The right to bear arms did not equate to nobility, but was nevertheless seen as a sign of rank and status.
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1629 E. Bolton Cities Aduocate ii. 24 No man loseth his right to beare Armes..vnlesse hee be attainted in Law.
1663 H. Herbert tr. J. de Silhon Second Part Minister of State i. xii. 67 Them, who have no other Right to bear Arms, than what they receive from th'hands of their Prince.
1752 tr. V.-C. Châlons Hist. France I. 242 Antiently no prince or gentleman was esteemed to have a right to bear arms, unless he had first been created a knight by the king.
1798 S. E. Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini I. x. 296 A gentleman..was, a person, whose grandfather, by the father's side, had a right to bear arms.
1833 S. Bentley Excerpta Historica 45 In the reign of Henry the Sixth..the right to bear arms rendered a man noble.
1871 Notes & Queries 25 Feb. 166/1 Many families possessed the right to bear arms without the right of using a crest.
1954 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 37 156/1 Unless she has no brothers and hence is the heiress of the family, she has no right to bear arms.
1999 P. C. Jupp & C. Glittings Death in Eng. vii. 189 Every individual who had a right to bear arms was entitled to the ceremonial of a heraldic funeral.
(b) Originally and chiefly U.S. The right to keep or use arms (sense 2b); the right to keep or use firearms, esp. for self-defence or to protect one's community or State.The right to bear arms is codified in the Second Amendment of the United States constitution: ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.’ This is one of the best known and most controversial parts of the constitution, and remains the subject of debate between opposing lobbyists.
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1776 Constit. Common-wealth Pennsylvania 9 People have the right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State.
1792 E. Ryves tr. J. V. Delacroix Rev. Constit. Principal States Europe II. 551 The people have a right to bear arms; but no standing armies shall be maintained in time of peace.
1841 E. A. Theller Canada 1837–8 xix. 310 The right to bear arms, and the right of speech, is an American right.
1879 Churchman 16 Aug. 171/1 Your right to bear arms does not include the right to make a shooting-gallery of another man's private parlor.
1921 Bankers Mag. Mar. 377 The individual citizen is again demanding the right to bear arms—a right which..the Constitution of the United States declares ‘shall not be infringed’.
1980 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. nj8/1 Opposition to gun controls based on the constitutional right to bear arms.
2007 Chicago Defender 19 Sept. 3/3 We need to value our children more than we value our right to bear arms.
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