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To: robertpaulsen
Article I, Section 2 says "the people" elect House members.

Article I, Section 2 says that the voters who meet the state's criteria for electing state representatives to the larger house of state government elect House members. There is no such qualifier (or qualifier of any other sort, either) to be found in the Second Amendment

Strike Two....

191 posted on 11/29/2007 6:23:50 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: steve-b

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The people who elect House members is a group which, through repeated successful Constitutional challenges and amendments thereto, has been expanded to include the whole of adult citizen non-felons. Ergo, should “the people” be the same as both those who elect House members and those who enjoy a protected RKBA, then those who enjoy a protected RKBA are the whole of adult citizen non-felons - which is exactly what most of us here mean by, and believe the Founding Fathers meant, by “the people”.

Taken to every logical conclusion, RP’s arguments prove that which he is passionately trying to disprove.


196 posted on 11/29/2007 6:42:13 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: steve-b
"Article I, Section 2 says that the voters who meet the state's criteria for electing state representatives to the larger house of state government elect House members."

They were "the people".

The second amendment protects the right of members of a well regulated state Militia to keep and bear arms. They also were "the people".

211 posted on 11/29/2007 10:20:11 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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