... And the other Justices that signed onto his position, making a majority and settling a number of points of law.
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... And the other Justices that signed onto his position, making a majority and settling a number of points of law.
Boy, for an ostensible individualist, you sure do show quite a bit of deference to the opinions of some of the top Feds - though not those of the 4 Justices who dissented, I see, or any of the other hundreds of judges with differing views over the course of the country's history.Quote:
... And the other Justices that signed onto his position, making a majority and settling a number of points of law.
The Constitution itself doesn't matter though, as long as your preferences are upheld. :rolleyes:
Sorry for the delay in response. I tend to agree with you, but then again I also support the concept behind the largely ignored 10th amendment from that same BIll of Rights.
With the best of intentions at the time, Lincoln more or less gutted the power of the several states in favor of the federal government. Hasn't been quite the same since.
Revisiting the 2nd would be an interesting discussion, at the very least.
On request, since it might cause thread derailing otherwise.
Nah, the modern diffference is that Europeans trust their state enough to not try to use barrel of a gun extortion. That worked fine 400-500 years ago and at that time the military might of the peasantry did influence how much power they got, but not so much nowadays. First weapon restriction is Sweden was 1927. In general, the state is less intrusive now than what it was 200 years ago (much more taxing though).
Gun use for hunting is fairly common in Europe (plently of countries have about 1/3 of the US concentration), but the idea of using guns for self defense or some kind of protection from the state is an anathema.
Tunisia had a successful revolution 2011 without any civilian gun ownership (they had the lowest in the world according to wikipedia).
Seriously. You're looking with a narrow view on your own country, ignores the history of the rest of world and try to declare your view as some kind of universial truth.