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To: ManyMoose who wrote (230251)	12/3/2007 8:42:24 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793838

A Militia is formed by the citizens of the State. I think (have to check with unclewest to be sure) that all other Military groups are formed by the Feds. The Continental Line in the Revolution was formed at the young Federal level. I have some ancestors who were Continental Soldiers, and some who fought for the soon to be new America, but were Militia and formed locally. i.e. @ Lexington and Concord.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (230251)	12/4/2007 7:21:55 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Well done. That is a precise quote from the 2nd Amendment. I am pleased that the supremes have accepted this issue. I cannot imagine misconstruing that phrase. They have an opportunity to explain that phrase. I only wonder how many words they will need to explain those 14.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (230251)	12/4/2007 12:53:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793838

As I've said before, you can dissect the sentence into two parts. Not in English you can't. The dependent clause sets the stage for the independent clause. If they were intended to be separate, they would have been written with an intervening period, not a comma. Only people with an agenda can interpret otherwise. The default is to read a sentence as written, particularly in a well crafted document such as the Constitution. It takes an agenda to separate two clauses into two sentences and claim independence rather than leave them as written. [is = being] You have to force a verb substitution to make two sentences. Force, stretch, and contrive. That said, I don't claim to know what the conjoined sentence means as written. What I do know is that to claim independence for the two clauses is more agenda-convenient than apt.