From a grammatical standpoint, the prefatory clause is nonrestrictive. This introductory throat-clearing provides additional details unessential to the sentence's core meaning. Justice Antonin ...

Thus, the prefatory clause involves the primary noun phrase (i.e., a well-regulated militia) and its modifying nonrestrictive appositive (i.e., being necessary to the security of a free state).

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