good for blank stares from 2nd amendment LUVAHS: the RKBA is in the Declaration, 2nd is CONTROL!!!

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22. Ha..that dictionary would make it easier! But at least we have examples

Of common usage. That's why I like the contemporary debates so much. Unfortunately there always seems to be a wrench thrown in...something that goes against the grain. Then, like now, everyone had there own priorities I guess.

I do like your examples though...especially the lack of 'bearing' these days.



Mason's original Master draft seemed to lean more heavily on the the RKBA as a seperate notion...still related but more stand alone. By the time of ratification, the need for the militia justifies the right. The Senate would have made all this debate meaningless if the motion to add 'for the common defence' at the end of "the right to keep and bear arms" had been approved.