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To: Reaganwuzthebest
"Women along with the old and infirm obviously didn't serve in militias back then but were in fact protected by all the other BoR and you have yet to prove otherwise."

Women were NOT "the people" and were not protected and here's your proof:

"In sum, the phrase “the right of the people,” when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual. This proposition is true even though “the people” at the time of the founding was not as inclusive a concept as “the people” today.

To the extent that non-whites, women, and the propertyless were excluded from the protections afforded to “the people,” the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to have corrected that initial constitutional shortcoming."
-- US v Parker

Memorize it so I don't have to tell you again.

238 posted on 11/29/2007 12:11:13 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
One modern opinion in a decision, albeit a very otherwise good decision does not settle anything. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries there is no case law, no speeches, no writings, no nothing that said the federal government was free to violate the rights of free citizen women in any way they pleased similar to slaves. Neither is it in the Constitution nor BoR. How about the old who owned property but then sold it or were unable to serve in militias, did they suddenly lose their rights?

Keeping "the people" limited to a very tiny portion of the population is important in your argument since if that can't be done then even the pretense of 2A limited to militia purposes gets blown away.

239 posted on 11/29/2007 12:22:05 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: robertpaulsen
To the extent that non-whites, women, and the propertyless were excluded from the protections afforded to “the people,” the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to have corrected that initial constitutional shortcoming."
-- US v Parker

Well, then, your whole attempt to assert limitations on who comprise "the people" whose RKBA is guaranteed by the Second Amendment has been mooted by case law. So why are you even bothering, unless you derive some perverse satisfaction from making an ass of yourself in public?

249 posted on 11/29/2007 1:21:35 PM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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