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| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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Baloney. Reduced to its essence, the sentence can be accurately represented thus:
"Because of that, we are guaranteeing this." "That" does not equal "this." They are two different things. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(4/16/2020)
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"Absolute phrase???"
Huh?
The "well regulated militia" part is an "exemplar."
That it might be interpreted to protect the right of a state to maintain a militia, does nothing to change the fact that the second part, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," was absolutly intended to do EXACTLY AS THE PHRASE DIRECTLY STATES.
The guy is a "grammarian?" Really?
I'm sorry, the guy hasn't much of a clue. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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MarkHamTownsend -
He's a "grammarian" with an anti-gun agenda.
His methodology is a dead giveaway.
Thomas Jefferson explained to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12, 1823: “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
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| To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defence of themselves and their country. — Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York [London 1823] |
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