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

To: TimF who wrote (16096)	10/25/2002 2:09:28 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Where else in the Bill of Rights did they use phrases only for rhetorical support? The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well-armed and well-regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person. They struck out that last clause in it's entirety. It would have been remarkably straight forward to strike out the second clause. They didn't; and I believe that shows that the Congress consciously kept those two subjects as intertwined. Even the third phrase while struck is covered under religious freedom.....but the existence of that phrase in the submission shows that the right to bear arms and the militia we're tied together...the exception being a religious exclusion. jttmab