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To: tpaine
The Library of Congress is not a valid source for roscoe?

Quoteless, naturally.

Actual quotes:

"The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress." -- US Supreme Court, U.S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), Presser v. State of Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)

41 posted on 10/13/2002 4:47:38 PM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
Yet another throughly discredited decision by a gungrabbing 'justice'.

Why do you hate guns roscoe? Are you afraid of an armed citizenry?
- Odd stance for a conservative, no?
43 posted on 10/13/2002 4:58:33 PM PDT by tpaine
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To: Roscoe
U.S. v. Cruikshank,

Which delt not with government infringement, but rather the failure of government to protect the right from infringement by private parties. The ruling indicated that the second amendment does not require, nor allow, the federal government to protect citizens from such infringements. It also indicates that the power to do so rests with the states at the discretion of their legislatures, not with Congress.

This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national Government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes, to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the"powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was,perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States."

Wether the second amendment protects against actions of state governments was not at issue in this case.

66 posted on 10/14/2002 10:00:03 AM PDT by El Gato
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