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To: arrogantsob
"Do we really want to encourage expanded federal law making under the aegis of the Fourteenth amendment?

No need to make a law.
In fact why confuse the issue.
We talking about and Enumerated RIGHT.

From the 10th.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
From the Second:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.

A power delegated to the United States by the Constitution, specifically the 2nd amendment.

Are you saying the 10th was repealed as well?

I am a citizen of The United States.
The founding Fathers knew exactly what they were writing.
They talked about armed revolutions and and armed citizen to prevent a tyrannical government gone wrong from trampling upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to
keep and bear arms has justly been considered.

I do not need another law to teach me history.

What is your definition of:
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."

299 posted on 07/14/2009 11:44:46 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla

The tenth amendment applies to the police powers of the states which include gun law. The Founders did not write it. Congress wrote it but they in no way meant for the BofR to apply to states as Marshall clearly affirmed in his masterful ruling on the issue.

Obviously, the “privileges and immunities of the citizens of the United States” is not clearly defined nor a matter of universal agreement. Some believe they include the right to same sex marriage, others that it means the right to free health care, another bunch believe it means if you are born here, though child of an illegal, you are a citizen. There are quite a few controversies here.

My interpretation is rather simple. It means that citizens of the US cannot be denied things which other citizens can have or do for some arbitrary reason. If I go to or live in one state my rights are identical with those who live in that state. It was created so that a Freedman in any state could not be denied the rights white citizens had as a matter of course in that state.


322 posted on 07/15/2009 3:02:41 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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