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To: neverdem

Thanks! Bookmarked.


2 posted on 06/03/2008 12:08:38 PM PDT by cvq3842
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To: cvq3842
Wouldn't it make sense to also look up the words in Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language"?

The Second Amendment was passed in 1791. Webster's first dictionary was published 15 years later. Johnson's was published in 1755 & the fourth edition was published in 1773 -- it would most likely have been the dictionary that the drafters of the amendment used to look up words.
5 posted on 06/03/2008 12:23:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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