Curried Goats
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The existence of the Bill of Rights does not invalidate any of the facts I laid before you. The Bill of Rights also protected the aristocrats from each other. In fact a good portion of the debate around ratifying the Constitution was around protecting the interests of Southern plantation owners. Take the second amendment. Let's look at its wording and original intent.If it weren't for The Bill of Rights, you might have a leg to stand on.
But you don't.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
Now right wingers like to argue this amendment was written to protect the little guy from tyrannical government but that shows a compete ignorance of history. The words... A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State... were not written to justify State militias taking up arms when it thought the federal government had gone to far, you only need to look to the Whiskey Rebellion to see how that played out. No, the security men like George Mason was concerned about was internal security. He didn't trust leaving the call of arms to a federal government that might act too late or not at all to suppress slave revolts or attacks from Native Americans. A plantation owner argued he needed to arm the population of the State to protect his business interests and to keep slaves pacified, not to support their grievances against the federal government.
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