To: justshutupandtakeit
For "the people", read "all free persons". Such a reading makes sense everywhere in the Constitution. By contrast, applying a reading that says "the people" means "the state militia" would be rather nonsensical in most contexts where the phrase appears.
392 posted on
02/10/2004 4:33:58 PM PST by
supercat
(Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
To: supercat
Correct.
518 posted on
02/11/2004 10:27:25 AM PST by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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