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OH NO. That is not quite what happened. Vermont got "Constitutional Carry" out of a 1903 VT Supreme Court decision - on constitutional grounds. The laws on carrying that were affected by that decision were then revoked.
So it is absolutely 100% correct to call what Vermont has "Constitutional Carry".
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Um...
Sorta...
State v. Rosenthal reversed a conviction of a man for breaking a municipal ordinance that was contrary to to the Vermont STATE constitution...
Nothing to do with the BOR of the US Constitution...
The original Vermont State Constitution predates the US constitution, (as we were an independent republic before joining the union), and therefore predates the US BOR by more than a decade...
The currently adopted VT Constitution is from 1793, but the wording of the current article 16 (originally artical 15) is the same as the 1777 VT Constitution...
1777:
XV. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the themselves and the State; and, as standing armies, in the time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
1793:
Article 16th.
That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State--and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.