[Lurker]

You have too many commas in your 2nd Amendment. There should be only one.

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[El Gato]

You have too many commas in your 2nd Amendment. There should be only one.

While it reads better and more logically with only the one comma, ther are official versions from the 1790s that are shown both ways.

However the meaning is the same, one comma or three.

[hadit2here]

I just cut'n'pasted it from the article that was posted, as a summary/reminder of what I was replying to.

However, findlaw.com shows the two commas in its "Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America" page, as does www.law.cornell.edu.

Additionally, while it is very hard to read unless magnified 3 or 4 times, the original parchment of "Engrossed Bill of Rights, September 25, 1789; General Records of the United States Government" shown at the National Archives website has "Article the Fourth" - which became the 2nd when the ten were ratified- shows the line with the two commas. Unless the National Archives has a bogus copy of the 1789 original, I would suspect that there can be no more definitive authority than that self-same parchment.

So while I was only quoting the article posted, it seems that it has it correct, according to the best authority.

But thanks for playing...