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IL: The fallacy of judicial 'originalism'
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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If what the original authors of the Constitution meant guided today’s originalists and if the Constitution is a dead document, then the right to keep and bear arms would mean today the kind of arms prevalent in the 18th century. Also “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” would be constitutionally limited to members of “a well regulated militia.” That is clearly not the case.
Ed.: I guess the author thinks only the National Guard (a select militia) should have guns, and even then only 18th-century muskets. |
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PHORTO
(7/21/2018)
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*yawn*
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - One'a them there original fellas
Now you really must excuse me, I have to go cling to my Bible and guns. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(7/21/2018)
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| It would be of tremendous service to authors of this drivel if they would do the research and find out what the Founders' original intentions were prior to writing their .... drivel. *SIGH* |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(7/21/2018)
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| It would be of tremendous service to authors of this drivel if they would do the research and find out what the Founders' original intentions were prior to writing their .... drivel. *SIGH* |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(7/21/2018)
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Oooooops. Double tap. Sorry.
But it was worth repeating. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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