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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Dissent, Ifs, Longer, Meaning, States, Words

Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset. . . The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms. . . The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it 'shall not be infringed.

Amendment, Extends, Individual, Law, People, Political

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Conscience, Looks, People, Principally, Useless

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Felt, Leadership, Reality, Resides, Together, War

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia. " Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

Gun, Keep, People, Provision, Quite, Rights
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