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In reply to the discussion: Who gets free speech? [View all]COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)24. You can try and run through semantic circles
to make the plain language of the 2A say something that it doesn't. But either there is an overarching reason why only the 2dA of all the Bill of Rights contains specific, prefatory language or the language is simply accidental or surplussage. I'd be interested in seeing any cite to precedent which holds that this language is surplussage and should therefore be accorded no meaning in interpreting the meaning of the 2A.
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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