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Showing Original Post only (View all)Who gets free speech? [View all]
A well informed population being necessary to the function of a democratic republic, the right of the people to free speech shall not be infringed.
The above sentence has the same construction as the 2nd Amendment.
Who gets free speech - "the people" or "a well informed population"?
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Are you trying to end discussion of da militia clause in one swift blow? Tsk-tsk.nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#1
Does it reasonably follow from the structure of 2A that the only purpose of RKBA
petronius
Oct 2012
#3
And yet that has never been the way the Second Amendment has been interpreted (by the Supreme Court)
TPaine7
Oct 2012
#6
The prefatory clause is quite similar to the current use of whereas, as you say.
TPaine7
Oct 2012
#33
Actually it is quite comparable. In fact, a very close analogue exists from that timeframe.
TPaine7
Oct 2012
#22