[robertpaulsen]

"Which, as the quotations I posted from the ratification debates proved out, is a complete lie."

You're wrong. Madison tried to insert, "No State shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or the freedom of the press, or the trial by jury in criminal cases" into the constitution and it was rejected.

[Dead Corpse]

Yes, but not for the reasons you seem to be implying. It wasn't because it was a bar of action on the States powers, but because they felt those Rights were already codified in other Amendments.

What are you going to try and spin next my little sock puppet?

[Dead Corpse]

"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both." William Rawle 1829.