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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)
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To: 2nd_Amendment_Defender
If the 2nd Amendment had been (uniquely for the Bill of Rights) intended to pertain only to State's rights, as compared to individual rights, it would have read:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the State to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

But it doesn't say that, does it?

The Bill of Rights was designed to guarantee individual liberties and rights. Some of the Framers thought we did not need to enumerate them, because they were so obviously guaranteed! But the Framers didn't anticipate political parties, per se, and they couldn't have dreamed of the socialist ideology of the modern Democrat Party.

13 posted on 04/23/2003 12:11:18 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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