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Fatally flawed Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Given that the Second Amendment does not establish the right to keep and bear arms but, rather, presumes it, one could argue that the presumption is mistaken. And there would be good grounds for doing so. Under social contract theory, with which the Founding Fathers were quite familiar, citizens give up to a government their natural right to protect and preserve their other natural rights, and in exchange for giving up their right to protect and preserve their other natural rights, that government promises to protect and preserve those other natural rights for them. This is what the social contract is. |
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jac
(1/23/2016)
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What a load of drivel.
"recent evidence also suggests ........"
He must have made up his phony statistics because they defy all logic.
My suggestion is that this numbskull move to formally great Britain or Australia where they don't have those pesky Bill of Rights. |
Comment by:
napalm
(1/24/2016)
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It is amazing that this "professor" doesn't know what the definition of the word CODIFY is! it DOES NOT mean "presumed" it means GUARANTEED or AFFIRMED. |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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