In what part of the constiutuiton that says u have a right to have self defense?

Answer 1

none. it's in the common law.

I would also like to add that the second amendment does not give a right to self defense.

The second amendment says: "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."

A WELL REGULATED MILITIA NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE.

I can't believe how common it is for people to ignore that part of the amendment. The founders actually told us their motives for the second amendment. They say nothing about because people need to defend them self they should bare arms.

Not everything we do is a right given to us by the consitution. The consitutiton was not written to tell us every single thing we can and can not do, it was written to establish the things that historically were not allowed that this new nation was going to allow.

Self defense just that, it is a legal defense. What people don't get is that a legal defense is basically saying "Yeah I committed the crime, but it's okay because...." It is not a denfese on consitutional grounds.

I am not against a right to self defense, I am totally in favor of it. But just because you have a right to self defense does not mean it comes from the constitution.

Answer 2

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

What Is Law ?

What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Each of us has a natural right--from God--to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?

If every person has the right to defend -- even by force -- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right -- its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force -- for the same reason -- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."

Those that believe we do not have the right to self defence are total proof of the indoctination being spewed out in our public school system. BTW the Constitution grants no rights to men, it only grants rights to government. ALL rights of government are from WE THE PEOPLE (I wonder what part of history these people slept through). The bill of rights are not granting but mearly stating rights we already have. What Thomas Jefferson called Inalinable rights. Rights that can NEVER be taken by government.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that ORIGINAL RIGHT of self-defense which is PARAMOUNT to ALL positive forms of government..." (Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers #28)

Jefferson stated that it was the government that was chained down by the constitution.

Answer 3

The second Amendment to the Constituition of the United States comes as close to that as you can, by stating we "have the right to keep and bear arms." The right to have self defense would be an inherent response to someone who would be threatening you. But that is the law, you have the right to reasonably defend yourself if you are being threratend with bodily harm.

Answer 4

It is implied by the 2nd Amendment and the Declaration of Independence, never explicitly stated.

However,I think it is commonly accepted as a universal law applying to all life forms that each has a right to defend itself.

Answer 5

The part that says we have the right to keep and bear arms. They aren't just for looks!

Answer 6

try the 2nd amendment it should get you started