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...ed States share a common origin as to the right to bear arms, which is the 1689 Bill of Rights.<ref name="BBClaws">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7056

...02/23/ngren23.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/23/ixhome.html Battlefield gives up 1689 hand grenade]". ''Scotland Correspondent''.</ref>

...as, a common law right to possess weapons, the [[English Bill of Rights]] (1689) and a statute, the [[Assize of Arms]], dating back to 1181. In short, ''' *[[English Bill of Rights]], 1689

...hile Protestants constituted over 95% of the English subjects. Not until [[1689]], with the rise of William of Orange, did the Protestants possess firearms The English Declaration of Rights (1689) affirmed freedom for Protestants to "have arms for their defence suitable

... It claimed that a lower court's citation of the English Bill of Rights of 1689 as a source of a preexisting right had "misinterpreted it to guarantee a pr

...illiam of Orange by Jacobite Highlanders at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689 was due (among other things) to the use of the plug-bayonet; and shortly af

...explicit recognition of this right appears in the English Bill of Rights (1689), designed by Parliament to constrain the power of the new King after the G ...constitutional documents as the Magna Carta (1215) and the Bill of Rights (1689). Property rights were further entrenched in the British constitution thro