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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Amendment II
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.
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The first amendment is interpreted to extend to every single person...or perhaps just citizens who are 18 and older. However so, you don't have to be part of any state government to petition. And if the second amendment wasn't meant to be extended to the exact same crowd, it wouldn't have been written the exact same way, at the exact same time, and put in the exact same place as the first amendment.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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