Saturday, March 20, 2010

Our Constitution Part VIII

Success requires the freedom to succeed. Freedom depends on our Constitution.


Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

This is another one of our God-given rights that progressive liberals take issue with, and activist judges try to infringe by making "interpretations", even though it is simply put, concise, and needs no interpretatation.

The argument liberals make is that they believe "militia" means armed services, i.e. National Guard, Army etc. But in the day when the Constitution was written, as seen in other parts of the document, the militia was apart from any organized army, and consisted of ordinary citizenry, armed, who could be called to defend the community, state or government as required, as were the Minutemen on the Concord Green that fateful April morning in 1776.

More to the point is that the amendment specifically and clearly states, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This portion is distinct from the first section about militia. The amendment is clear - every American citizen has a God-given right to defend himself, his community, state and government, and a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms for that purpose, and such right may not be infringed- not by states, Congress or activist liberal judges.

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