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To: looscnnn
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and that you are not trying to deliberately misstate my comment which pointed to the obvious point that the Constitution preceded the 2d amendment. It in no way implied lack of relevance.
267 posted on 02/10/2004 10:15:10 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
justshutupandtakeit said: "I will give you the benefit of the doubt and that you are not trying to deliberately misstate my comment which pointed to the obvious point that the Constitution preceded the 2d amendment."

I am unfamiliar with the exact history, but I thought that the nine states which first ratified the Constitution did so only under the condition that a Bill of Rights be appended. Is that not so?

333 posted on 02/10/2004 12:01:48 PM PST by William Tell
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