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John Paul Stevens, a justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, wrote an interesting book, “Six Amendments” which included a study of the Second Amendment. To review a little background, on April 19, 1775, with the British troops marching toward Concord, Massachusetts, to take away the muskets from the troublesome colonists, the colonists rose instead to the occasion and thus started the Revolutionary War. With the Constitution and Amendments enacted in 1789, the concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of the Second Amendment... |
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PHORTO
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It'd be nice if just one of these Mensa members understood that because of our Constitution, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
The second question is, "Will it work?"
The FIRST question is, "is it constitutional?"
Without an affirmative answer to the first, there ISN'T any second. |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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