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To: Dead Corpse
If he wasn't

He wasn't. He was not at the BOR "convention", as you falsely claimed, nor was he a member of the Congress that ratified it, as you falsely claimed.

how did the wording for two of the Amendments he came up with end up in the Constitution?

Just when I think you couldn't be any more ignorant...

Here's the version of the 2nd Amendment your opponent of the Constitution signed:

"That each state, respectively, shall have power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia thereof, whensoever Congress shall omit or neglect to provide for the same. That the militia shall not be subject to martial law, but when in actual service, in the time of war, invasion, or rebellion; and when not in the actual service of the United States, shall be subject to such fines, penalties, and punishments, only, as shall be directed or inflicted by the laws of its own state: nor shall the militia of any state be continued in actual service longer than two months, under any call of Congress, without the consent of the legislature of such state, or, in their recess, the executive authority thereof."
Wildly different, with NO mention of a right to keep and bear arms.

Gimme another squirm.

389 posted on 02/15/2007 3:20:42 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Shut up troll.

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States … Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America." Gazette of the United States, October 14, 1789

You just ain't very good at this Roscoe. Stay in Kalifornistan . It suits you...

395 posted on 02/16/2007 6:02:58 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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