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To: ctdonath2
"Prohibitions of religion, enforced..um..creative morality are not unusual, and suppression of knowledge is routinely practiced by most governments that ever existed."

I would not call that "good" government. I'd be hard pressed to even call that a "government".

66 posted on 02/04/2008 2:33:07 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

But under your reasoning, it’s up to the government to define what constitutes “good government” and prohibit anything they decide isn’t facilitating it.


74 posted on 02/04/2008 2:58:35 PM PST by ctdonath2 (GWB wept for those who suffer. HRC wept for herself.)
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To: robertpaulsen

But since the Founders considered a well regulate Militia (rather than an armed populace) necessary to the security of a free state, they decided to be a little more specific.

If that was the case then they should have written it as,
“....,the right of the militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

We are speaking here of a “...Right of the PEOPLE...”, those same PEOPLE mentioned in the other amendments as indicating an individual right.


89 posted on 02/04/2008 3:23:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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