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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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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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