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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (1985)10/10/2000 1:01:32 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) of 10042
 
I'm not ignoring the word well regulated militia. I am looking at the direct meanings of the words. The right is not granted to the militia. Why does it mention the militia? Apparently for rhetorical support of the active clause of the amendment. The first phrase "A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state", makes no
statement that allows or forbids government or individuals to do anything. The only active clause is the 2nd clause.

The impersonal language here in the 2nd amendment is very different than that elsewhere. Not "in their persons" like the language of the 4th, or "person" in the 5th Amendment or or "owner" like in the 3rd, or "the accused" like in the 6th, all singular specific. It is impersonal and abstract.

Article One Section 2 Clause 1 - "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States"

Article One Section 3 Clause 1 - "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State,
chosen by the Legislature thereof"

The 2nd clause was later amended but why did they have to distinguish between the people of the states and the legislatures of the states if "the people" really means a government body? The people, and variants of it, throughout the constitution refers to all of the individual people, not some government controlled collective of people.

Tim
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