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To: Dead Corpse

Wrong. That’s not how the supremacy clause works. Why do you think, for instance, states were allowed to have official churches despite the 1st amendment? Because the federal Constitution, in addition to forbidding the states some powers, applies mainly to the central government. That is the body which shall not infringe upon the right to keep and bear arms.

Should the people have wushed the states ordered not to do the same, that’s what state constitutions are for. It wasn’t until the 14th amendment and the incorporation doctrine that the 2nd amendment applied to state law.


51 posted on 01/18/2013 3:11:37 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

Three sentences in and you prove how tenuous your grasp of English is.

The 1st states Congress shall make no law. There is no such limit on the 2nd.

Also, there are no Federal “people”. The “people” in the Second is all of us.

All in all, epic fail for you.


56 posted on 01/18/2013 3:20:36 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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