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To: archy
Archy -- Yours is one of the most interesting throughts I've ever seen on Constitutional issues: the idea that negating one of the articles negates them all and throws us into a state of anarchy. If they're going to ignore the 2nd Amendment, then let's ignore the 1st, and the 3rd as well, and the rest of them. Let's ignore all the laws. It's every man for himself. I'll be all right. I was trained in the Marine Corps. Will they?
77 posted on 02/01/2003 1:23:24 PM PST by henderson field
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To: henderson field
If they're going to ignore the 2nd Amendment, then let's ignore the 1st, and the 3rd as well, and the rest of the. Let's ignore all the laws. It's every man for himself. I'll be all right.

Precisely, but we need not *ignore* the laws- once they have been so abrogated, the constitutional contract between government and governed is thereby dissolved without further process, and any laws derived thereby are also moot and without any real moral authority or backing- and Article II of the Constitution is just as meaningless as the Second Amendment- and the authority and offices under that Article are equally null and void.

Finland suffered similar difficulties between the pro-communists and *white* forces during their 1918 Civil War. It is not difficult to foresee something similar here in the near future, but note that once the Constitution is abandoned, it cannot be repaired or replaced by simply patching over the flaw that caused its initial disintegration.

As for how former Marines as yourself might fare in such a post-constitutional aftermath, see Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers.

80 posted on 02/01/2003 1:51:35 PM PST by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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