[PeterPrinciple]

Are you going to apply the same illogic to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? Free speech? Due process? Trial by jury? SLAVERY? The right to peaceably assemble?

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And from a practical standpoint, how are those arguments going with a centralized government in DC?

[EternalVigilance]

Your question makes no sense. The state of the national government is what it is because it is peopled overwhelmingly by folks like Steele; those who have no firm moral basis for their own thinking, much less any action that might secure liberty or truly serve the people.