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Not true, but the truth would escape a mind that isn’t very subtle and prefers insults to discussion.

In fact, the militia is defined as the body of able bodied persons hence it includes all individuals of age.

Illinois’ constitution actually defines the militia in those terms. This does not stop the state from preventing concealed carry by law-abiding citizens.

Federal power is limited to those things which are not explicitly denied the fed government, those things which do not violate the spirit of the constitution or those things which are not means for achieving the specified ends. See Hamilton’s Essay on the National Bank for the most elegant discussion of this issue.

Do you just make up any crap you want and claim your antagonists believe it? The three pieces of crap you claim are my beliefs are totally foreign to my thought.

What is true is that I do not support wild, unsupported and ridiculous charges or excessively verbose rhetorical outbursts. This rules out much agreement with you.

Exactly backwards; the States's power is only limited to that explicitly prohibited via Constitution, and any power not expressly given to the Federal Government is either that of the States or the people:

Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

You, my boy, are a Statist and the government your little tin god.

The Founders gave one example as to WHY "The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". It wasn't the only reason, just one. It also isn't a limit. That you HAVE to participate in the active militia to be able to exercise that Right.

You've been reading too much Brady Bunch propaganda. Or writing it, one of the two...

Federal power was to be extremely limited, but supreme within that scope. Art 1 Sec 8 was the definition of what it was supposed to do. Everything else, via the 10th Amendment, was off limits. NASA? The DEA? The Dept of Education? Dept of Energy? FCC/FAA? Not a single one has any relation to an Art 1 Sec 8 defined power of the FedGov.

The "general welfare" clause in the Preamble was never supposed to have the force of law. That came latter via judicial activism.

Something else I am also certain you will support as your "spirit of the constitution" has the rancid whiff of a "living Constitution" idiocy about it.

You are so far; pro-welfare, pro-gun control, and pro-taking of Private property for Private gain. You've used Monarchism as an excuse along the lines of "everyone has done it".

Gee... They are your posts. Right there. Just up thread for all to see... No, little troll, we won't agree on much. You see, I'm a conservative. You aren't.