Originally Posted by
archives
Not true, and you wanted a list of cases going back to 1875? I gave you the one you know, well, I assumed you knew given the others didn't decide in the way you'd prefer.
And now your telling us you know more than all of these Supreme Courts over the course of a hundred and fifty years who could never reach the conclusion you just did because of "commentators?" It ain't "commentators" that count, rather the Comstitution, and the way the Constitution is interpreted by the Court
first off, again for the learning impaired, the constitution wasn't written by the courts, it was written by we the people. the commentators mattered because this is what was presented to we the people when we voted for ratification. now, unless you have the super secret document that madison presented to the delegates saying 'ha, we fucked em', the right is accepted as individual and the courts, in your suggested cases, are wrong.
and yes, back in 1875 the supreme court KNEW that the right therein was indeed an individual right, but there are also several federal and state cases from before then that mention the same thing. In fact, you don't have a single supreme court case that declares the right as collective because it doesn't exist except in your alternate reality of the miller case.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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