[H.Akston]

The 14th Amendment was intended to centralize our government, by giving the Federal courts too much power over the State legislatures. It is an illegitimate amendment, the font of do-good busybody, Harrison Bergeron liberalism (like busing), proposed and voted out by an unconstitutional Congress. Less than 3/4ths of the states ratified it. The southern states weren't even in the Union, and were under reconstructive dictatorships when they "ratified" it. It is a squalid amendment - of a rump congress, by a rump congress, for a rump congress.

The 14th Amendment was not needed to apply ANY of the bill of rights to the states. Article VI, Section 2 already covers that need: "This Constitution...shall be the supreme Law of the Land...Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding".

No State could deny a right to bear arms, given the above clause.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38ae1fc86628.htm

[H.Akston]

To reiterate my previous link:

The Squalid 14th Amendment

[tpaine]

The Squalid 14th Amendment [Free Republic]
Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38ae1fc866]

Funny you should link to the 'Squalid' thread, akston, seeing you got your 'states rights' head handed to you on it more than once, by quite a few different FReepers.

[robertpaulsen]

"No State could deny a right to bear arms, given the above clause."

But they are.

And the courts, both state and federal, have said that the above clause does not apply to the second amensment.