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| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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Baloney. Reduced to its essence, the sentence can be accurately represented thus:
"Because of that, we are guaranteeing this." "That" does not equal "this." They are two different things. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(4/16/2020)
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"Absolute phrase???"
Huh?
The "well regulated militia" part is an "exemplar."
That it might be interpreted to protect the right of a state to maintain a militia, does nothing to change the fact that the second part, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," was absolutly intended to do EXACTLY AS THE PHRASE DIRECTLY STATES.
The guy is a "grammarian?" Really?
I'm sorry, the guy hasn't much of a clue. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/16/2020)
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MarkHamTownsend -
He's a "grammarian" with an anti-gun agenda.
His methodology is a dead giveaway.
Thomas Jefferson explained to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12, 1823: “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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