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<blockquote data-quote="Jagger" data-source="post: 418073" data-attributes="member: 16628"><p>My argument is that the intent of the lawmakers, at the time they made the Second Amendment, should be ascertained by applying the well established common law rules of construction, as they existed at the time the Amendment was made. </p><p></p><p>In 1789, the well established rule of construction pertaining to legal expressions comprised of parts that didn't coincide, was that <strong>the means should be sacrificed to the end</strong>.</p><p></p><p> That link doesn't go to a pamphlet put out in the 1700's. James Madison didn't write the Bill of Rights. It was written by a legislative body comprised of about 85 lawmakers.</p><p></p><p> The first twelve amendments weren't recommended to the several states as a Bill of Rights. The first amendment of the twelve recommended by Congress in 1789 granted it the power to regulate the proportion of Representatives to the people represented.</p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span>The first twelve amendments weren't recommended as a Bill of Rights and one of the proposed amendments clearly granted Congress a regulatory authority.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jagger, post: 418073, member: 16628"] My argument is that the intent of the lawmakers, at the time they made the Second Amendment, should be ascertained by applying the well established common law rules of construction, as they existed at the time the Amendment was made. In 1789, the well established rule of construction pertaining to legal expressions comprised of parts that didn't coincide, was that [B]the means should be sacrificed to the end[/B]. That link doesn't go to a pamphlet put out in the 1700's. James Madison didn't write the Bill of Rights. It was written by a legislative body comprised of about 85 lawmakers. The first twelve amendments weren't recommended to the several states as a Bill of Rights. The first amendment of the twelve recommended by Congress in 1789 granted it the power to regulate the proportion of Representatives to the people represented. [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR]The first twelve amendments weren't recommended as a Bill of Rights and one of the proposed amendments clearly granted Congress a regulatory authority. [/QUOTE]
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