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To: AllSmiles
But is the judiciary the just arbiter of the constitution? The Supreme Court itself established judicial review. Is it possible that we are seeing a new jurisprudence in which this power is being extended to other constituencies?

Please don't take this as a cheap shot, but what about the American Colonists? George III was the constituted authority when they revolted, after all. In my rather narrow view, the second amendment exists primarily to perpetuate the threat of another revolution to discourage tyranny. If that is the case, then the courts have greatly erred in their interpretations of the constitution.
96 posted on 04/08/2003 7:19:39 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (I feel just awful that New York and California will burn in sulphur and brimstone)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
In my rather narrow view, the second amendment exists primarily to perpetuate the threat of another revolution to discourage tyranny. If that is the case, then the courts have greatly erred in their interpretations of the constitution.

agreed!

98 posted on 04/08/2003 7:25:36 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (The Jesuits TRAINED me - they didn't TAME me)
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