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Re: Trying to understand
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 03:48:48 GMT
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lar@voyager.netSPAMCAKE
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > This point has been debated here before. It turns on the intent of the
> > authors. I can't cite the particular Paper, but the Federalist papers
> > speak to this point. It also turns on the meaning of "well regulated"
> > (and of Militia) which many hold not to mean what we moderns think they
> > do.
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> I'll clarify my point if it was a little murky: Frank stated the purpose of the
> 2nd amendment was for the populace to keep the government in check (or words to
> that effect). That may have have been in part what the 2nd amendment is about,
> but I disagree that is what it is solely about.
I'll again go back to what was written in the federalist papers. I
plowed through them a few months back, so it's a fairly recent memory...
I can't deny that there may have been other motives than the final check
but that was the biggie, by a big majority, in the thought process... it
seemed to be the one spoken to the most. These guys had just come out of
a revolution, after all. It wasn't about hunting or about fending off
hostile natives, it was about keeping the government in check should it
turn into a tyranny.
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| (...) There's also that "hostile foreign Powers" thing too, considering that the early United States simply didn't have the money to maintain a large standing army or navy, and wouldn't until the 1850s. Until the 1830s, invasion from Canada was a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'll clarify my point if it was a little murky: Frank stated the purpose of the 2nd amendment was for the populace to keep the government in check (or words to that effect). That may have have been in part what the 2nd amendment is about, but (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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