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<blockquote data-quote="Jagger" data-source="post: 382328" data-attributes="member: 16628"><p>The methodology of interpretation used by Justice Antonin Scalia in the Heller opinion is probably not that which the lawmakers intended for him to use. Scalia states that he will interpret the text of the Second Amendment according to the "normal and ordinary" meanings that would been given it by "ordinary citizens in the founding generation."</p><p></p><p>Anyone knowledgeable of the common law in America in the late 1700's knows that it was well established law that the goal or object of interpreting laws was "<strong>the will of the legislator</strong>", not the understanding of "ordinary citizens." (See Blackstone's commentary on the "interpretation of laws" in his famous Commentaries on the Laws of England.)</p><p></p><p>Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer and would have known what the object of interpreting a law was when the Second Amendment was made. He was preaching it in 1812 to the Governor of Virginia.</p><p></p><p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> The... maxims of the bench, to seek <strong>the will of the legislator</strong> and his words only, are proper... for judicial government.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> --Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 1812. ME 13:128</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jagger, post: 382328, member: 16628"] The methodology of interpretation used by Justice Antonin Scalia in the Heller opinion is probably not that which the lawmakers intended for him to use. Scalia states that he will interpret the text of the Second Amendment according to the "normal and ordinary" meanings that would been given it by "ordinary citizens in the founding generation." Anyone knowledgeable of the common law in America in the late 1700's knows that it was well established law that the goal or object of interpreting laws was "[B]the will of the legislator[/B]", not the understanding of "ordinary citizens." (See Blackstone's commentary on the "interpretation of laws" in his famous Commentaries on the Laws of England.) Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer and would have known what the object of interpreting a law was when the Second Amendment was made. He was preaching it in 1812 to the Governor of Virginia. [INDENT][I] The... maxims of the bench, to seek [B]the will of the legislator[/B] and his words only, are proper... for judicial government. [/I] --Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 1812. ME 13:128[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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