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To: Lancey Howard

I hate to disappoint you, but what is now known as the “second” amendment was originally the third or forth, (don’t remember for sure).

The proposed bill rights had twelve amendments. They were in no particular order.


41 posted on 01/05/2013 6:11:13 PM PST by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: Jotmo
The proposed bill rights had twelve amendments. They were in no particular order.

Nonsense.

42 posted on 01/05/2013 6:50:36 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Jotmo

Oops. I reread your post and realized I misunderstood you.

Yes, the original 12 amendments submitted by Madison (I don’t believe they were referred to upon submission to the states as a “Bill of Rights”, but I may be wrong) included two amendments which were not agreed to at the time and were dropped. Those were the original first two amendments and they pertained to 1) a representative-to-population/ ratio, and 2) pay raises for legislators. (That second one was finally ratified as the 27th about 20 years ago.)

The first nine of the ten amendments which were ratified at the time were ordered in accordance with their closest reference points within the text of the Constitution, and it could be argued that the original text itself was “ordered” by importance from the view of the framers. That tenth amendment was basically a capstone which reiterated that this “Bill of Rights” is essentially a formality and actually isn’t needed at all because all rights are inalienable anyway. I guess the tenth amendment was a nod to the anti-federalists.

In my opinion the Bill of Rights turned out to be a very lucky afterthought.
I can’t imagine what the scumbag government would have done to squash the people and their rights without it.

FRegards,
LH


43 posted on 01/05/2013 9:26:18 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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