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To: Kaslin

The two ‘insurance’ laws were actually requirements that ships keep doctors and provide service to the crew. This is because all ships were involved to some degree in the Barbary war but could also be conscripted into the service of the States and thus were considered a potential military naval asset.

The requirement of owning a gun was a wartime law establishing a militia.

Neither of these laws are even close to the ‘mandate’ of health insurance. Both were part of national defense issues, not commerce.


11 posted on 04/14/2012 7:09:03 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
The gun law was a misreading of what they'd added to the Constitution. I read it to require the government to provide military grade firearms to constitutional members of the militia, that is, males 16 to 60!

I wanted an Abrams tank, fully decked, and with half a dozen deuce and a halfs tailing along carrying ammunition of suitible caliber!

18 posted on 04/14/2012 7:19:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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