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What Does ‘Well Regulated’ Really Mean?
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But the power and absolutism commonly associated with the Second Amendment doesn’t seem to sway the skepticism espoused by two influential former U.S. Supreme Court justices.
On the Tuesday following the “March for Our Lives” rally on March 24 in Washington, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, writing an eight-paragraph commentary for the New York Times, argued that students and pro gun-control protesters should seek a repeal of the Second Amendme |
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PHORTO
(4/12/2018)
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This question is a straw man that just won’t go away.
Grammatically, in that sentence the phrase “well regulated” modifies the noun “militia”, not the noun “right” nor the noun “people”. They aren’t even in the same clause.
Therefore the perpetual attempt to apply that modifier to the right fails grammatically, and is a specious effort to undermine the true meaning and public understanding of the amendment for ideological reasons. |
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lbauer
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| The purpose of the founders as authors of our Constitution is perfectly clear to anyone who bothers to learn the common tongue of the day. Well regulated simply means well equipped. The militia clause was inserted into the Second Amendment to provide the new government the authority to require citizens to own and maintain arms necessary should a call for the unorganized militia become necessary. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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