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To: robertpaulsen
robertpaulsen said: "Anything desired? No, it must be constitutional. "

Then it must be of extreme importance for the courts to rule according to the Constitution. And when the Supreme Court and lower courts improperly constrain the RKBA due to the dependent clause in the Second Amendment, as you have agreed they shouldn't, then it has consequences for rule by constitution.

I don't have to be king to want the courts to correct errors which both of us admit they have made.

Today, federal law forbids the manufacture of some rifles due to inclusion of a bayonet lug, a solid piece of metal weighing about an ounce. Such is the expected consequence of unConstitutional decisions.

Your repeated claim that people like myself only have to accomplish a Constitutional amendment to set things aright is nonsense if the courts are free to rule despite the constitutional provisions which already constrain them.

537 posted on 08/05/2004 11:28:15 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell
"to correct errors which both of us admit"

Whoa! I didn't say "errors". Don't put words into my mouth.

I said it was inconsistent with other cases, and "for some reason" they ruled differently. I don't know the reason. You don't know the reason. AFAIK, it could be a valid reason.

"Such is the expected consequence of unConstitutional decisions."

Now see? You state this as though it were a fact. It's not. It's your opinion. Looks like fact though, doesn't it?

542 posted on 08/05/2004 12:22:08 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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