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QuizMultiple Choice
Unit Test — Unit test
Question 3 • AP US Government and Politics
Refer to the cartoon.
Answer
A
The court used strict constructionism to uphold the right of the people to keep and bear arms and struck down a restriction on that right.B
The court used loose constructionism to reinforce extensive regulation of arms by local, state, and federal authorities in order to maintain public safety.C
The court determined that the Constitution’s Framers intended arms possession to be restricted to well-regulated militias subject to local, state, and federal authorities and that individual citizens do not have a right to keep arms.D
The court ruled according to the Second Amendment’s original meaning that citizens’ right to keep arms was “necessary to the security of a free State” in the context of the nation’s historically weak military position following independence.