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MN: More on what the 2nd Amendment means
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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This is what the Second Amendment says: �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.� There are a lot of poorly informed folks who think that we should ignore the first 13 words of the amendment and pay attention to only the last 14 words. They would have us believe that the framers intended those 13 words to have no meaning, a legal nullity, without meaning and purpose. They imagine it to read: �To ensure the freedom of individuals against the government, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.� That�s not the Second Amendment. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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Actually it is a pretty fair restating of the second amendment.
Remember, "right OF THE people" is central to the understanding of the amendment; it tells us exactly who owns the unalienable right. |
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| Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. � Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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