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To: zook
the 2nd Amendment was actually intended to preserve a state's right to maintain a militia,...

There is no such thing as "state's rights". Look it up in the Constitution, "states rights" is never mentioned in the document or in subsequent amendments. It's an oxymoron, like collective rights. The language of the constitution is that individuals have "Right's" and government entities have "Power's" and the Founding Fathers never used the terms interchangeably. That you lack the knowledge of this fact indicates to me that you may be a constitutional moron. Furthermore, the 2nd Amendment, as it is written, gives the "power" to form and regulate militias to the states, but maintains the right of the people to be armed.

And I, for one, am fine with that.

Why didn't you just state that and live with the responses instead of giving evidence of your ignorance by trying to support your opinion with your illogical reasoning?

I for one, do not belive that the 14th. Amendment, as it is written, confers citizenship by reason of birth within the borders upon a newborn conceived by two foreign nationals. And it was never intended to do so.

85 posted on 04/26/2005 8:57:29 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: elbucko

Look, Bub. I try being respectful to everyone here. Don't go pushing the "ignorance" thing unless you'd really really really like to get into a pissing contest that you'll never win.

You know the point I'm trying to make regarding the 2nd Amendment and "intent." If you don't want to deal with the issue, then just let it go. As it stands, you're just blowing smoke.


87 posted on 04/26/2005 9:12:24 AM PDT by zook
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To: elbucko
There is no such thing as "state's rights". Look it up in the Constitution, "states rights" is never mentioned in the document or in subsequent amendments.

Except of course,for this one;

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.

90 posted on 04/26/2005 10:22:38 AM PDT by kennyo
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