<\/center>The following are taken from the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary<\/b><\/i>, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated<\/b> Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”<\/p>\n 1714: “The practice of all\u00a0well-regulated<\/b> courts of justice in the world.”<\/p>\n 1812: “The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a\u00a0well-regulated<\/b> clock and a true sun dial.”<\/p>\n 1848: “A remissness for which I am sure every\u00a0well-regulated<\/b> person will blame the Mayor.”<\/p>\n 1862: “It appeared to her well-regulated<\/b> mind, like a clandestine proceeding.”<\/p>\n 1894: “The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every\u00a0well-regulated<\/b>\u00a0American embryo city.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From: Brian T. Halonen <halonen@csd.uwm.edu> The following are taken from the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment: 1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.” 1714: “The practice of all\u00a0well-regulated courts of justice in the world.” 1812: “The equation of time … is … Continue reading “The meaning of the phrase “well-regulated” in the 2nd amendment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89055","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89056,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89055\/revisions\/89056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}