Try the Bill of Rights. Isn't it amazing how we can all agree that they all apply to the individual, excepting the 10th, which specifically mentions states rights, but somehow the 2nd only applies to the collective even though it specifically names THE PEOPLE.
The OP states "Hazrat argues that commas should play no role in interpreting the amendment..." Read the OP, before you post some stupid, ignorant, worthless bumper sticker slogans.
yea your such a scholar on this dante...
I did, dumbass. I also have read the letters of the writers of the Constitution, and they make it VERY clear that the 2nd is an INDIVIDUAL Right.
you have so much depth you cant spell things correctly....
come on west dante says he has more intellectual depth then ten of us here....
hilarious post!
Good gawd
, nobody here believes you understood one tenth of what you claim to have read.
Homework assignment for westwall[ In fact, conservative jurists were quick to criticize Heller as lacking two supposed hallmarks of judicial conservatism: an unbiased review of the evidence about the meaning of the Second Amendment and, given ambiguity about that meaning, judicial restraint. Justice Scalia’s opinion, these judicial conservatives argued, deployed an unbalanced historical analysis, reached a questionable conclusion about a constitutional right, and failed to defer to the judgments of elected officials.
J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a conservative Fourth Circuit judge, likened Heller to Roe v. Wade, and suggested that Heller was a “new” form of judicial activism based in “originalism.” Conservative Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner agreed in equally stark terms, writing that Heller reflected not conservatism, but rather “freewheeling discretion strongly flavored with ideology.”
To be sure, not all conservatives agree with this critique from the right and, in any event, Heller is now on the books and the rule of law requires lower courts to abide by it.
But the perceived judicial activism underlying Heller is relevant to how lower court judges, especially many judicial conservatives, analyze challenges to gun laws less extreme than the handgun ban at issue in Heller. In those cases, judges must decide whether to extend Heller’s core holding — which, in its narrowest form, is that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess a handgun in the home for self-defense — in order to strike down firearm restrictions in other circumstances. In making that decision, lower court judges are guided by cautionary language in Heller itself that the Second Amendment is “not unlimited” and that the opinion should not “cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions,” which are “presumptively lawful.” ] - quotes
Justice Scalia, the Second Amendment, and Judicial Conservatives
Following Justice Scalia’s famous opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, conservative and liberal judges generally agree on the scope of the Second Amendment right.www.brennancenter.org
Homework assignment for Harry Dresden
of course. also, if one accepts the validity of the USC, one accepts the amendment process. doing this means accepting ALL the amendments.
And one must accept how the Amendments are...
["Essentially Scalia argued that the Founders meant, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms — something separate — shall not be infringed.”
When asked about original intent, James Madison wrote people should look to what the ratifiers thought words meant and what they, the ratifiers intended, and NOT look to the authors - framers, of the USC.
The Founders KNEW that all governments eventually become corrupt, so they ensured the the PEOPLE had the means to REMOVE that corrupt government.
Indeed, at the time the 2nd was written "well regulated" meant "in good working order", which is why you see that phrase engraved on CLOCKS.
It comes down to officials become corrupt. The 2nd is our final redress.
Once a government gets too corrupt, there is no way to do that.and amend the constitution
Second Amendment
The Second Amendment permits sensible gun laws. Our analysis pushes back on absolutist characterizations of the amendment.
