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The second amendment states that "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" (U.S. Attorney's Office, 2013, p. 7). The amendment obviously refers to threats posed to state sovereignty by a national standing army; and not to a household's anxiety about intruders. The Constitution can be amended to make this perfectly clear by adding the words 'when serving in the militia'; such that the Second Amendment reads 'a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed" (Stevens, 2014).

D) Theories of Constitutional Interpretation

Theories of constitutional interpretation fall into several categories; pragmatism, constructionism, contextualism, intentionalism, textualism, and originalism, among others (Wayne, 2010). I subscribe to a contextualism approach, because the context within which an event occurred says a lot about the intention of the doer. In law enforcement, context plays a fundamental role in decision-making; for instance, when we say that someone acted in self-defense, we have taken into consideration the situation the subject was