Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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Justice Thomas insists that words have meaning*.
In this he is perfectly right.
Case in point being the SECOND AMENDMENT
the NRA loves to cite.
This “right” is unique in that it's contingent
on what was true in eighteen-oh-two.
Though gung-ho gun lovers will come unhinged,
the dependency's ended, so we can infringe.
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*“When faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning." — The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. Jeffrey Toobin. Random House (2007). ISBN 978-0-385-51640-2.
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