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Subject: 
Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:31:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
The best we have available are the Federalist Papers. Since they are
polemical and propaganda written (some of) the drafters to influence
adoption, they are not perfect. But they are a fascinating read, even at a
200+ year remove.

Well, you won't catch me defending the later politics of one A. Hamilton,
but we also have Madison's Notes on the Convention, don't we?

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/debcont.htm

And you can find The Federalist at:

http://memory.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: Handgun Death Rate
 
(...) Do tell... I'm rather at a loss on how there is a difference in the meanings of such fundamental terms. Rather, this was a deliberate misconstruing, done knowingly by Congress. Kind of like how Michigan's Right to Carry law was made referendum (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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