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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (533201)	11/29/2009 9:21:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573841

Do state constitutions take precedence over the national constitution??? Federal law overrides state law...

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (533201)	11/29/2009 9:36:54 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1573841

North Carolina had it right.... "The 1776 North Carolina Constitution declares the right is "for the defense of the State," but delineates no other purpose. [14] This "right to bear arms" language is included in the same sentence as denunciations of and restrictions on standing armies. This language would be expected to lend strong support to arguments that the Second Amendment was intended exclusively to promote state militias so as to reduce the power of the federal standing army [15] and that the only purpose of the Second Amendment is collective defense, not individual arms possession for personal defense. [16]"