How to parse the 2nd Amendment.

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How is the 2nd Amendment be parsed?

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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.

Here's a similar structure:

"A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."

"A well-schooled electorate" is a nominative absolute.

"being necessary to the security of a free State" is a participial phrase modifying "electorate".

The subject (a compound subject) of the sentence is "the right of the people".

"shall not be infringed" is a verb phrase, with "not" as an adverb modifying the verb phrase "shall be infringed".

"to keep and read books" is an infinitive phrase modifying "right".

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