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To: Dead Corpse
Still more from teh Debates on the first Militia Bill.

[C]onceived it to be the privilege of every citizen Note: singular tense, and one of his most essential rights, to bear arms, and to resist every attack upon his liberty or property, by whomsoever made. The particular states, like private citizens, have a right to be armed, and to defend, by force of arms, their rights, when invaded.
Debates in the House of Representatives, ed. Linda Grand De Pauw. (Balt., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1972), 92-3.

233 posted on 07/29/2006 5:59:25 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.- Aeschylus)
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To: Dead Corpse
[C]onceived it to be the privilege of every citizen

You're arguing that bearing arms is a privilege?

What next?

235 posted on 07/29/2006 6:07:48 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Dead Corpse
The particular states, like private citizens, have a right to be armed

Collective bodies have rights just like individuals?

I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish by the furious fire you're directing at your own foot, but I'm sure enjoying it!

237 posted on 07/29/2006 6:11:42 AM PDT by Mojave
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