To: 2nd_Amendment_Defender
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.[1]" The Second Amendment contains only a single comma [0].
7 posted on
04/21/2003 6:09:12 PM PDT by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
To: boris
The Second Amendment contains only a single comma. The Second Amendment is written exactly like this:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
I have looked at the original document written by James Madison and found it is exactly as written above.
8 posted on
04/21/2003 7:47:59 PM PDT by
2nd_Amendment_Defender
("It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." -- Patrick Henry)
To: boris
I have just read from the link you posted. Does this mean the document I looked at was not the copy that was ratified? The Second Amendment is posted as the Fourth Amendment in the document I read that James Madison hand wrote. I am thinking the ratified copy of the Bill of Rights is written differently.
9 posted on
04/21/2003 9:18:24 PM PDT by
2nd_Amendment_Defender
("It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." -- Patrick Henry)
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