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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4823)	7/13/2001 7:13:32 PM
From: The Street	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Uh, read the State Constitutions-- they are more specific. And, by DEFINITION, the Bill of Rights are the first 10 Amendments... And, by definition those are individual rights. So, the 2nd is a individual right. (BTW, the concept of "group rights" is laughable and a 21th century liberal spin...) You might want to read the header here so you can be spoon fed the truth: Subject 21779

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4823)	7/16/2001 10:26:46 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

It provides a reason for the active clause. It may be that it is not the sole reason but it the one that the framers thought important enough to write into the amendment. As such it cannot be ignored, If you are looking for reasons then it can't be ignored if your looking for what limitations the amendment actually puts on government then it really doesn't say much unless you think amendments to the constitution are limited to covering the reason for them. Do you think the first amendment is limited to political speech? Or even speech at all (and maybe writing) as opposed to other forms of expression? This is obvious by looking at the extremes, there is no right to own atomic weapons, or bazookas, or sawed off shotguns, so there are limitations to the right and the "supporting clause" provides a guideline to those limitations. That goes to the question of what are "arms" as defined in this amendment. Not if there is an individual right to arms. Tim