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To: patton
Want to know something funny? The Parker decision quotes the 2A twice withing the body of the decision ... and each quote has a different number of commas.

Well as long as they use the 3 comma and 1 comma versions, both of which can claim some degree of being official, I suppose that's OK.

But you'd have thought they'd have chosen one and then stuck with it.

673 posted on 11/10/2007 8:24:36 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato; patton
Want to know something funny? The Parker decision quotes the 2A twice withing the body of the decision ... and each quote has a different number of commas.

Well as long as they use the 3 comma and 1 comma versions, both of which can claim some degree of being official, I suppose that's OK.

But I checked, and they didn't. Instead, in their second use, they used a two comma version, which has no historical basis, AFAIK.

That just goes to show that commas or the lack thereof, are about as likely to be typos, or the hand copying equivalent thereof.

679 posted on 11/10/2007 10:34:24 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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