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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133151)	3/23/2001 4:12:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 769667

My point exactly. The historical context of the sentence helps in the parsing; the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms" is clearly a modifier to the first clause regarding the Militia. That makes no sense. If the right of the people to keep and bear arms is a modifer then the main clause would be "a well regulated milita being nessiary to the security of a free state." That clause doesn't serve any legal purpose it doesn't mandate anything or forbid anything or set any conditions. It doesn't make any sense except as rhetorical support for the clause that does make a positive legal statement, namely that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Tim

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