{"id":99971,"date":"2025-10-18T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99971"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:19:10","slug":"99971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99971","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the &#8220;high powers&#8221; delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.&#8217; A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power.<\/em><br \/>\nCockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394 (1859)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the &#8220;high powers&#8221; delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.&#8217; A law cannot be passed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=99971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112676,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971\/revisions\/112676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}