Posted on 04/05/2018 6:12:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Right of the People
“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
George Mason
I just posted this on another thread, but it is just as relevant here.
The Unabridged Second Amendment http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967854/posts
The Heller Decision ruled that there is an INDIVIDUAL right to own firearms under the Second Amendment. The militia clause died as an excuse to disarm individuals with the Heller Decision.
We’ve been down this road ad-nauseum. A state where only the police/military have guns is by definition a police state. I don’t think the founders had that in mind.
Oh! Excuse me! We keep breeding these idiots and then let them have a voice even though their utterances are nonsensical.
No. Now stop writing stupid headlines.
We are the militia.
We The People are the militia.
The Constitution has two parts:
Part 1: The powers granted to the Federal government by the sovereign entities (the States and the People). This is the portion the Fed Gov MUST do.
Part 2: The Bill of Rights is the opposite. It is a statement of rights the Fed Gov may not touch. This is the portion over which the Fed Gov has no authority. Did we miss something? Read the 9th and 10th... anything we didn’t mention still belongs to us.
As I noted on another thread, Oregon’s gov’s insistence that she would refuse to send the Guard to the border would result in the Oregon Guard being federalized. Progs claim the Guard is the Militia. That is not possible if the Guard can be made an arm of the federal govt’s armed force. No. The Militia is the People.
a) We are the militia
b) The Second Amendment does not grant any rights. It merely guarantees that government will not infringe those rights.
It preserves Freedom.
The 2nd Amendment directly defines the militia as “the people.” Back in the day, when the army needed help, it would send out a call for citizen volunteers and the volunteers would bring their arms. The army would provide the powder and shot, volunteers would be separate as the militia under the command of the general — Jackson, for example.
The Bill of Rights is antecedent to the Constitution.
Our Founders had been fighting for freedom for nearly 700 years when they wrote the Bill of Rights. The 1215 Magna Carta was written from violations of the 1100 Charter of Liberties. Regarding the Second Amendment, it was about killing politicians when they became tyrants, their standing armies and their supporters.
Your rights are God-given FRiend. Everything is antecedent to that.
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Each citizen is the militia. Case closed.
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