(Posting from an away game.)
There are those who pooh-pooh the importance of the Second Amendment, because it wasn’t the First. E.g., “If protecting our liberties was so important, why didn’t the right to bear arms come first?”
It came second because first and foremost, it was imperative to enshrine the right of free speech, unencumbered by anything preceding it. Placing the right to bear arms first might imply that one had freedom of speech except when the government, by potential use of the militia made possible by the right to bear arms, might suspend it. Thus the enshrinement of the right to bear arms came second, as not only being necessary to protect freedom of speech, but also being subordinate to that freedom, because it was from the desire for freedom to speak out against an encroaching government without fear of retaliation that the American Experiment sprang. All else is secondary and subordinate to that one, single, basic human right. And that’s why the Framers put bearing arms second.