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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
(6/9/2021)
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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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