Re: CAN THE STATE MILITIAS EVER BE ABOLISHED?

On 25 Nov 2003 21:40:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Rakur)
wrote:

>David Lentz <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL 
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>> Leif Rakur wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> > Leif speaking:  The Second Amendment is NOT incorporated under the 14
>> > Amendment. Presser is good law.  The states, insofar as the Second
>> > Amendment is concerned, pass whatever kind of gun legislation they
>> > want. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people
>> > collectively to maintain their own state militia even if Congress
>> > should fail to do its constitutional part in that respect.  It's hard
>> > to see how that provision could be applied AGAINST the states.
>> 
>> The idea that constitutional rights must somehow be incorporated
>> by the Supreme Court is a totally absurd idea devoid of merit.
>> There is no language either in the Fourteenth Amendment or
>> anywhere in the Constitution, which would give the Supreme Court
>> any power to decide which constitutional rights are protected and
>> which are not.
>> 
>> David
>
>Leif speaking:  Opinions opinions.  

    And that is exactly what the Supreme Court issues.


The reality is that the Supreme
>Court DOES
>decide what gets incorporated under the 14th Amendment.  They think
>that's their job.
>

     Racists think that it is their job to supress the rights of those
that think are inferior humans.