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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 435272" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p>This is a good essay written by one of the liberal ACLU types. It fits in pretty good with this discussion. Worth the time to read if the second amendment interests you.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html" target="_blank">http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>"I, for one, have been persuaded that the term "militia" did not have the limited reference that Professor Cress and many modern legal analysts assign to it. There is strong evidence that "militia" refers to all of the people, or least all of those treated as full citizens of the community. Consider, for example, the question asked by George Mason, one of the Virginians who refused to sign the Constitution because of its lack of a Bill of Rights: "Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." <a href="http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html#48" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[48]</span></u></a> Similarly, the Federal Farmer, one of the most important Anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution, referred to a "militia, when properly formed, [as] in fact the people themselves." <a href="http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html#49" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">[49]</span></u></a> We have, of course, moved now from text to history. And this history is most interesting, especially when we look at the development of notions of popular sovereignty. It has become almost a cliche of contemporary American historiography to link the development of American political thought, including its constitutional aspects, to republican thought in England, the "country" critique of the powerful "court" centered in London."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 435272, member: 8259"] This is a good essay written by one of the liberal ACLU types. It fits in pretty good with this discussion. Worth the time to read if the second amendment interests you. [URL]http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html[/URL] "I, for one, have been persuaded that the term "militia" did not have the limited reference that Professor Cress and many modern legal analysts assign to it. There is strong evidence that "militia" refers to all of the people, or least all of those treated as full citizens of the community. Consider, for example, the question asked by George Mason, one of the Virginians who refused to sign the Constitution because of its lack of a Bill of Rights: "Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." [URL="http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html#48"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][48][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Similarly, the Federal Farmer, one of the most important Anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution, referred to a "militia, when properly formed, [as] in fact the people themselves." [URL="http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/embar.html#49"][U][COLOR=#0000ff][49][/COLOR][/U][/URL] We have, of course, moved now from text to history. And this history is most interesting, especially when we look at the development of notions of popular sovereignty. It has become almost a cliche of contemporary American historiography to link the development of American political thought, including its constitutional aspects, to republican thought in England, the "country" critique of the powerful "court" centered in London." [/QUOTE]
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