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In reply to the discussion: Just askin' [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)16. It isn't an individual right either.
It gives the right to 'the people'. Other amendments that grant individual rights grant them to: persons, owners etc.
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I'm guessing they sort of go with the 'shall not be infringed' part of that.
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#1
It is possible to logically say that the main clause is, "A well regulated militia...shall not be
patrice
Jan 2013
#6
I'm not sure the careful parsing matters...they just need something to which they can cling
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#7
Well, there are no perfect words, that means the ability to think is paramount. Thinking is NOT what
patrice
Jan 2013
#15
This is always the silliest argument...I just don't get how people think like this...
jmg257
Jan 2013
#11
Just because you don't perceive something does not mean that it is not there. Commas are the
patrice
Jan 2013
#12
Nope - its some silly shit. My use of "so" did not alter the intent of the actual amendment,
jmg257
Jan 2013
#14
So YOU may add to the Constitution AND subtract from it, but no one else may do the same. PRIVILEGE
patrice
Jan 2013
#17
Easy, don't go away mad. I was not adding or subtracting, I was rehashing what it says using
jmg257
Jan 2013
#19
k, so the founding fathers (ahem...) made a mistake & forgot to say "hence". What other mistakes did
patrice
Jan 2013
#24
And would any of their other mistakes have anything to do with the means by which Corporate Personho
patrice
Jan 2013
#25
Judges are like accountants, their figures don't lie, but they surely do figuring.
HereSince1628
Jan 2013
#23
Come on now. You can't say that you inserting a word didn't change the intent when you're
Politicub
Jan 2013
#30
My adding 'so' while paraphrasing the wording of the 2nd did NOT change the intent.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#32
+1, nutters have an excuse of being incredibly gullible what I cant stand is DUr's with HPC usin NRA
uponit7771
Jan 2013
#2