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To: Wonder Warthog
Well, if you're willing to bear with me, I won't be at work forever.

Well, I can find a right to bear arms, but not one to bear with you.


Just kidding! I await your post. :-)

73 posted on 04/21/2009 12:41:44 PM PDT by MamaTexan (~ The People of the several States are not 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States ~)
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To: MamaTexan

http://www.constitution.org/wr/rawle_10.htm

“Of the amendments already adopted, (for which see the appendix,) the eight first in order fall within the class of restrictions on the legislative power, some of which would have been implied, some are original, and all are highly valuable. Some are also to be considered as restrictions on the judicial power.”

“The constitutions of some of the states contain bills of rights; others do not. A declaration of rights, therefore, properly finds a place in the general Constitution, where it equalizes all and binds all.”

“Each state is obliged, while it remains a member of the Union, to preserve the republican form of government in all its strength and purity. The people of each state, by the amended constitution, pledge themselves to each other for the sacred preservation of certain detailed principles, without which the republican form would be impure and weak.”

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“The corollary, from the first position, is, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

“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.”


85 posted on 04/21/2009 3:18:52 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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