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Creative Speculation

Shipwack

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4. I highly doubt that they would change a thing.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Fri Sep 24, 2021, 07:53 PM

Sep 2021

The majority of them were slave owners, and the second amendment was intended to assure that the southern states could put down slave revolts and arm fugitive slave posses. It's inclusion was required to get southern states onboard.

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I wonder if we could bring back the founding fathers who wrote the "Bill of Rights", what they [View all] Stuart G Sep 2021 OP

Well, seeing all the runaway slaves on the loose.. Effete Snob Sep 2021 #1

Given their stated concern for general welfare of citizens, I think they'd have something to say. Pobeka Sep 2021 #2

Thank You...Great Point.. Stuart G Sep 2021 #3

I highly doubt that they would change a thing. Shipwack Sep 2021 #4

For anyone not in the paradigm, accepting the paradigm would be ... sanatanadharma Sep 2021 #5

The founders always assumed that the constitution would change as society changed tymorial Sep 2021 #6

Could be something like this . . . Journeyman Sep 2021 #7