Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

"David E. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "ulTRAX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Diogenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > And from George Mason: "[w]ho are the militia, if they be not the
people
> of
> > > this country ...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist now of the
> whole
> > > people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the
> > > militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no
> alteration,
> > > the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and
> low,
> > > and rich and poor ....
> >
> > Lame. Anti-slavery quotes from the Framers obviously can NOT be used
> > as proof there was NO intent to protect slavery in the Constitution.
> > Neither does Mason's private opinion UNLESS it's shown it became the
> > basis for constitutional law. But there's NO evidence the Framers ever
> > wanted a militia OUTSIDE of civil control. Militias were by definition
> > a result of statutory law not common law. Dan Shays armed insurgents
> > were NOT a legal militia.
> >
> > BTW the Senate REMOVED the "body of the people" reference from the
> > draft amendment.
>
> DY: Since the right of the people to keep and bear arms is specifically
> protected, the "body of the people" language is tautologous and should
have
> been removed. Note that the Senate and House indicated in the introduction
> to them that the amendments were intended to satisfy the Ratifying
> Conventions. All of the last four Ratifying Conventions, which
distinguished
> Bill of Rights provisions from other amendments, uniformly defined "a well
> regulated militia" in their Bill of Rights as "the body of the people".
>
> Read the Founders' own period views on the Bill of Rights and Second
> Amendment. Or, you could read gun control advocate Second Amendment spin
and
> compare it to the Founders' views just for laughs.
>
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> David E. Young    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Editor - The Origin of the Second Amendment:
> Cited over 100 times in the Emerson Decision
> http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/99/99-10331-cr0.htm
> Info: http://www.secondamendmentinfo.com
>

Interestingly, no member of the executive, legislative, judiciary branch of
our government, nor members of our armed forces swear an oath to the STATE.
They ALL swer to support and defend the CONSTITUTION, of which the Second
Amendment ia a part. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is the
cornerstone to all rights.

-*MORT*-