"-- I can't believe RP actually stated that mere local statutes can over turn State Constitutions --"
Can't read?
"But if the state constitution allows it, and if the state has home rule, then of course a city may ban handguns.
And you really should watch your language, a$$hole.
Paulsen, the really foul language being used here at FR is your anti-constitutional 'moral majority' BS.
Resolved, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable parts of the said Constitution of government, ought to be laid before Congress, and the convention of the states that shall or may be called for the purpose of amending the said Constitution, for their consideration, previous to the ratification of the Constitution aforesaid on the part of the state of North Carolina.
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17. That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that. in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
1. That each state in the Union shall respectively retain every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Constitution delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the federal government.
They KNEW that the States were DELEGATING certain powers to the Federal Government. Those things specifically listed. That the BoR was to be a BLANKET protection for a common set of Rights necessary for the "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..."
Our Rights are either held inviolate by any level of government, or we don't actually HAVE any Rights and our Nations founding document is a lie and void.