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Subject: Post-Civil War State Constitutions

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Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, January 17, 1866 – General Order No. 1, § 16 in A Handbook of Politics for 1868 at 36, 36-7 (1868 Philip & Solomons).

, , , | | 1866

"XVI. The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed; nevertheless this shall not be construed to sanction the unlawful practice of carrying concealed weapons, nor to authorize any person to ente...

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Miss. Const. of 1890, art. III, § 12.

| | 1890

The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weap...

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1876 Colo. Const. 30, art. II, § 13.

| | 1876

That the right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when hereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practi...

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Mo. Const. of 1875, art. II, § 17.

| | 1875

Right to bear arms, when – That the right of no citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power, when hereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained is in...

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Tenn. Const. of 1870, art. I, § 26

| | 1870

"SEC. 26. That the citizens of this State have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defense; but the Legislature shall have the power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime."

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1868 Or. Laws 18-19, An Act to Protect the Owners of Firearms, §§ 1-2.

, | | 1868

Whereas, the constitution of the United States, in article second of amendments to the constitution, declares that “the right to the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;” and the constitution for the state of Oregon, in arti...

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