REPORT OF 1799. VIRGINIA. HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Madison is talking about the press:
"...Under any other construction of the amendment relating to the press, than that it declared the press to be wholly exempt from the power of Congress, the amendment could neither be said to correspond with the desire expressed by a number of the states, nor be calculated to extend the ground of public confidence in the government."
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I like Madison's "Here is the most satisfactory and authentic proof, that the several amendments proposed, were to be considered as either declaratory or restrictive; and whether the one or the other, as corresponding with the desire expressed by a number of the states, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the government."
One can see clearly that the Second Amendment is either declaratory or restrictive:
declaratory - "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
restrictive - "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" by the federal government
Very good.