Re: CAN THE STATE MILITIAS EVER BE ABOLISHED?

"Leif Rakur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> David Lentz <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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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.  The reality is that the Supreme
> Court DOES
> decide what gets incorporated under the 14th Amendment.

Actually, no they do not get to decide.....reference the 10th Amendment.

>  They think
> that's their job.

So? They can think the moon is made of cheese as well, but that isn't going
to make it so.

I will simply note your acceptance of a tyrannical assumption of powers in
violation of the Constitution, and tell us we are suppose to trust these
same bozo's to uphold the Constitution.


> -Leif