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rdharma

(6,057 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:03 PM Jan 2014

"THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT"

I invite you to check this out!

"THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT"

Abstract:

Professor Bogus argues that there is strong reason to believe that, in significant part, James Madison drafted the Second Amendment to assure his constituents in Virginia, and the South generally, that Congress could not use its newly-acquired powers to indirectly undermine the slave system by disarming the militia, on which the South relied for slave control. His argument is based on a multiplicity of the historical evidence, including debates between James Madison and George Mason and Patrick Henry at the Constitutional Ratifying Convention in Richmond, Virginia in June 1788; the record from the First Congress; and the antecedent of the American right to bear arms provision in the English Declaration of Rights of 1688.

http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/bogus2.htm

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"THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT" (Original Post) rdharma Jan 2014 OP

Sure makes more sense than "the militia is all of us" and similar BS advanced by gun culture. Hoyt Jan 2014 #1

Thom Hartmann interview with Prof. Bogus........ rdharma Jan 2014 #2

Also, Article III section 3 defines treason as flamin lib Jan 2014 #3

bogus is not bogus jimmy the one Feb 2014 #4

It was nice of saf.org to provide "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT" rdharma Feb 2014 #5

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Sure makes more sense than "the militia is all of us" and similar BS advanced by gun culture.

Reply to rdharma (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:18 PM

Jan 2014

rdharma

(6,057 posts)

2. Thom Hartmann interview with Prof. Bogus........

Reply to rdharma (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 06:35 PM

Jan 2014

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)

3. Also, Article III section 3 defines treason as

Reply to rdharma (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 11:19 AM

Jan 2014

taking up arms against the federal government which puts the "we need guns just like the government so we can protect ourselves against the tyranny of government" argument.

Don't need no stinkin' amendment, it's right there in the body of the Constitution.

jimmy the one

(2,718 posts)

4. bogus is not bogus

Reply to rdharma (Original post)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:00 AM

Feb 2014

Question I have is that this site you cited is SAF, or second amendment foundation, a progun very progun gobble of gunnuts; but nowhere did I see any saf rebuttal just the book excerpts (or totality?) which is a great read, bashing gunnuttess joyce lee malcolm as well, for her incorrect reading of the british declaration of rights (aka bor) in 1689.
.. did the gunnut crowd ever have fun with gun control advocate & professor Bogus last name, ha (his last name is actually Bogus - arg, no joke).

rdharma

(6,057 posts)

5. It was nice of saf.org to provide "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT"

Reply to jimmy the one (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:41 AM

Feb 2014

......... in its entirety. Why they did it? Beats the heck out of me. But it was very nice of them to provide a copy because I couldn't find by searching its original source (University of California at Davis Law Review).

They probably posted it to be "fair and balanced"........ You know, like Fox News.

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