To: El Gato
Then you believe "the people" means different things in the constitution. It means one group for voting, a different group for bearing arms, a third group for 4th amendment protecttion, something totally different for the 9th and 10th amendments ... etcetera .... etcetera.
Living and breathing, that constitution is.
To: robertpaulsen
Do you believe that I have a G-d given right to keep and bear arms? Do you have such a right? Does any person?
299 posted on
11/29/2007 6:21:49 PM PST by
groanup
(When companies fail they go out of business. When a gov't project fails it gets bigger. M.F.)
To: robertpaulsen
Then you believe "the people" means different things in the constitution. It means one group for voting, a different group for bearing arms, a third group for 4th amendment protecttion, something totally different for the 9th and 10th amendments ... etcetera .... etcetera. Your Art. I section 2 reference includes restrictions/qualifications. The others you list don't. Thus the latter all refer to the same group, the people of the United States. The Former only to qualified voters, except to the extent that the People of the Several States are represented in that voting by the qualified electors.
304 posted on
11/29/2007 10:16:37 PM PST by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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