rainbowbob
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Right on, Seminole!
I hold that the rights we enjoy(or are supposed to enjoy) were protected in the "Bill of Rights" and those protections were cast as a wide blanket across all government when they were written. I refer you to Madison's speech that I linked to earlier. They protect rights of individuals, after all.
For all intents and purposes, all the Fourteenth Amendment did in regard to our rights and freedoms is to extend the rights and freedoms in the First Amendment to the several states and grant power to Congress to enforce the protections of all our rights and freedoms on the several states.
The Constitution already does make the government helpless to regulate NFA weapons, destructive devices, etc. Any lack of Court action upholding that is at the least bad behavior.
gc70 said:If the Bill of Rights originally applied to the states, then the 14th Amendment certainly could not "extend" the Bill of Rights to the states.
frankie the yankee said:I don't see any of the Respondent's briefs taking your view of what the Constitution means as to NFA weapons, destructive devices, nuclear bombs sold out of vending machines set up outside of UN HQ in NYC or MP-5's on airliners.
...a majority of them that is,..
You're on a fool's errand if you equate the freedom of religion with the RKBA. The religion amendment clearly states that "The Congress shall enact no law establishing a state religion ..." The 2nd Amendment does NOT say anything about "the Congress" -- it says that "The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."Soodonim said:Constitution Cowboy: you are right, I was unclear about that. But the Bill of Rights only limited federal action, it took the 14th Amendment to incorporate the Bill of Rights to apply to the state as well, and as we can see, one of those fundamental rights, the right to bear arms, is still not incorporated, so the system is far from perfect. Look at the First Amendment's ban on Congress from establsihing a church. Many states, such as Connecticutt, had official relgions after the Constitution was ratified.
Originally Posted by frankie the yankee
I don't see any of the Respondent's briefs taking your view of what the Constitution means as to NFA weapons, destructive devices....