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To: robertpaulsen

“I already backed up my claim that all valid militias had state appointed officers. If your private militia doesn’t have state appointed officers, the second amendment doesn’t protect it.

I’m not saying private militias don’t exist or that they aren’t allowed to exist. I’m simply saying the second amendment doesn’t apply to them.” RP

Cite your source - The federalist papers would be acceptable.

So far, you appear alone in the claim that in order to be valid a militia must have state appointed officers.


97 posted on 03/18/2008 9:53:35 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Triple
"Cite your source - The federalist papers would be acceptable."

If I had a source that said the second amendment protected individuals as part of a well regulated Militia, there would be no Heller case, now would there? You're asking for something that doesn't exist.

The second amendment does not say unorganized militia or even just militia. It says "a well regulated Militia".

The U.S. Constitution refers to a militia with officers appointed by the state.

I'm now repeating myself with you. If you can't understand something this basic and straightforward, I'm sorry. Read Federalist 29 where Hamilton scoffs at disciplining "all the militia".

102 posted on 03/18/2008 10:10:00 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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