danielpalos
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The People are the militia. Well regulated militia of the People are declared Necessary.Dude, our Second Amendment cannot do what is claimed by the right wing, because it would have to be a Constitution unto itself.
The Second Amendment does nothing in and of itself. The Second Amendment is a guarantee that government will not infringe upon the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms.
The whole Bill of Rights is a limitation on the government NOT the people.
"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals .... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."
-- Albert Gallatin, New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789
"The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration and Protest of Virginia, 1825. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors