... who sided with American Independence, this again was John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. The House of Burgess and Continental Congress representative was instrumental in American history, influencing the colonial grievances with Britain, inciting colonial British disgust, and most certainly his contributions to the ... of Benedict Arnold, a patriotic traitor. By all means, Arnold had vast impacts on both American and British histories. He was an extremely powerful militia general during the revolutionary war, contributing in many ways to the independence ef...

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... . The founding fathers anticipated that gun control could become a serious issue in the future, so they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The Second Amendment states: "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." Most gun control activists focus in isolation ... on the beginning of the amendment where the founders wrote that a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. They then try to argue that only the military or the National Guard should have ac...

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• Grade Level: High School