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Posted on 06/15/2023 4:51:52 AM PDT by marktwain
In the recent series of direct Supreme Court opinions on what rights the Second Amendment protects, the Court laid out a brilliant exposition of what the words of the Second Amendment mean and how to use the meaning of the Second Amendment in judging the law. Those cases started with Heller, continued with McDonald, with more in Caetano, and most recently with Bruen. Earlier decisions talked about the Second Amendment without ruling on it directly at the Supreme Court. The famous Miller decision from 1939 is muddy and does not give a definitive interpretation.
Justice Thomas of the Supreme Court is an originalist and a textualist. This means he judges the law by the text of the Constitution instead of determining what results he desires or what he thinks is the best policy for the country. Progressive judges do not do this. They look to the results they wish, then work to find out a way to justify those results. The idea of a “living constitution,” in essence, means no effective Constitution.
The Constitution is a contract between the Federal Government, the People, and the States. It specifies and arranges the political power structure of the Republic. It is detailed and easily understandable by people of ordinary intelligence. The writers of the Constitution understood political philosophy and the nature of man extremely well, much better than most contemporary politicians.
The modern Progressive movement arose in the 1890s, pushed by those who wanted more power to make national laws they believed to be necessary. Many desired to make the nation stronger, to “right wrongs,” and “do good.” They may have meant to be benevolent rulers, but they meant to rule. They despised the restrictions placed on their ambitions by the structure of the Constitution and the Bill
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Onside believes words have meaning. The other side constantly changes meanings of words to fit their politics. I’ll go along with the meaning of the U.S. Constitution assigned at its birth. 😂
Self defense is a secondary concern...and I don't hunt.
But one would assume that he understands that even if his amendment gets through Congress he'll be lucky if 15 state legislatures would ratify it.
A broken clock correctly tells time twice per day.
All white history is racist
We became a nation due to a Revolutionary War kicked off by the attempt to confiscate privately owned arms thwarted by the actions at Lexington and Concord. Just based on that, that anyone could think the 2nd Amendment meant anything other than the individual right to keep and bear arms, is just a sign of insanity and/or disingenuousness.
Care to elaborate on that comment?
Bkmk
sorry forgot the /S
Very good analysis, as usual, by Dean . . .
He knows it’s doomed. I think he just wants his name out there, and credit for the effort.
“But...’” the soft-in-the-head lib replies,”...there were no AR-15s, in those days.” And the sheep nod their heads.
They’ve gone to far. They’ve even gone far beyond going to far.
The deterrent of the 2A is a toothless lion if it never used.
The Tree of Liberty is a desiccated husk.
That’s ok, I saw you were new here, and thought you might be a troll.
No worries. Welcome to Free Republic!🙂👍
That is the best thing to do so no one is offended. /S
I exist in a natural state of sarcasm, so I need to do better at identification of it.
Thanks for the welcome.
It’s hard not to be sarcastic anymore, the world being what it is…
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