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PHORTO
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The Second Amendment was ratified in 1789. It doesn't take an 'interpretation' in 2020 to 'decide' what it means - it means what it says.
Any laws that violate that clear, black-letter proscription of government power are null and void.
Since the federal and state legislatures consistently ignore that fact, the last line of enforcement of that constitutional mandate is the counties and localities.
The argument that their official acts have no force of law, when the laws they countermand violate both the state and federal constitutions, is facially without merit. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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