2nd please

[Chili Ron]

Howdy,

I ask that Team SASS copy word for word and comma for comma the

entire 2nd amendment under the TEAM SASS logo.

It is so elegant and so simple that reminding all of the actual language is a good thing.

Please?

BEst

CR

ps-I used to work at a University where they got a law school

When the law school came in, a small statue was put up.

The statue has the whole Bill of Rights on two simple pages.

It didn't take 2700 pages like obamacare did.

 

I need to get over there and read it again.

[Colonel Dan, SASS #24025]

CR, Excellent suggestion!!! I'll see what we can do.

 

CD

[Blackwater 53393]

It should be pointed out that two of those commas were added later. The original amendment had only the comma between "free State" and "the right of the people"!

 

The other two commas were added subsequently and are in part responsible for the argument some antis put forward that the militia is the subject of the amendment. I don't recall the circumstances that led to the addition of those commas, but I seem to recall that they were added at different times.

 

There are articles and the like on this subject, readily available on your search engines.

 

Regardless of all else, "the right of the people" is the crux of the matter. In no other part of the Bill of Rights is "the people" recognized as a collective rather than an individual phrase!!

[Chili Ron]

Howdy,

The People, not the several States or the Federation.

Or even the Militia.

 

The People, as in you, me, them, Everybody.

Best

CR

[Tennessee Trapper Tom]

Amen

[Colonel Dan, SASS #24025]

Done!

 

Check it out in both the header on this forum and the main page.

 

A big thank you to Mr. James Reader....our Sass Forum Tech!

 

And a big thank you to Chili Ron for the super suggestion!

 

Soldier on...

[Chili Ron]

Howdy,

 

And thank you and the several fellas who wrote it originally.

 

Best

CR

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

Notes

I've seen many versions of "the Second amandment"; and, earlier i did some research on the topic;

only one copy of the text carries the force of law and that is the copy as it was ratified by the states;

as you recall 12 Articles were offered; only Articles 3-12 were approved and became Amendments 1-10;

reference

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/bill_of_rightss12.html

 

Correct copy of Article IV

 

Art. IV. 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.

 

Notes

this agrees with my earlier research in which i believed i had located a scanned copy of the original articles;

the text offered here agrees with the scan that i found

 

I may be able to locate the scan again; my earlier URL seems to have changed;

 

Update:

 

this is the reference to the scan

http://web.archive.org/web/20000309173445/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9526/bor001.html