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To: SeekAndFind
Wiki:The Court also presented a parade of horribles argument, based on the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, listing what the Court considered to be the inevitable and undesirable effects of granting Scott's petition:

"It would give to persons of the negro race, ...the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, ...to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased ...the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

While that Supreme Court was whacked enough to not consider even free blacks to be people/citizens capable of having standing to sue...even they recognized the basic right of citizens to possess and carry arms, without question and fundamental. Only real people have the right to keep and bear arms wherever they go.

14 posted on 04/13/2014 12:45:22 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

The above is from the Dredd Scott decision.


15 posted on 04/13/2014 12:47:01 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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