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To: Freedom4US
Oh, for God's sake.

late Middle English (in the sense ‘control by rules’): from late Latin regulat- ‘directed, regulated’, from the verb regulare, from Latin regula ‘rule’.

24 posted on 05/09/2021 6:04:50 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Fido969

I’m not going to do your homework for you. It shouldn’t take much.

It is self-evident when you read the very text of the 2nd.

They used “regulated” in a completely different sense than the word is used today, or in middle english or whatever you’re digging up.

Ask yourself this. Provided you agree that a militia is “necessary to the security of a free state”, what would be the characteristics and attributes of that? A bunch of rules and bureaucratic BS? Of course not.

A well trained, a well functioning unit. Think drill and ceremony, if you’ve ever served in the military. A moment’s thought on this by anybody makes it clear what they meant. It isn’t even debateable, except of leftist wankers.


32 posted on 05/12/2021 9:45:20 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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