The constitution was written with general words that describe a whole group of things when they meant ALL of the group. Some simple examples of groups of things vs specific things.
Books... dictionary (a subset of all books)
Food... wheat (a subset of all foods)
Speech... newspapers (a subset of all types of speech)
Shall... will (just a portion of the meaning of shall)
Religion... Christianity (a subset of all religions)
Arms... musket (a subset of all arms) If they meant muskets, then why did they not say it that way? Simply put, they meant all arms for all of the population.
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