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In reply to the discussion: What America's gun fanatics won't tell you [View all]MarvinGardens
(781 posts)62. Federalist 29 isn't about the 2nd Amendment.
It is about Congress's Article 1 powers with respect to the militia. The part Hamilton quotes is Article 1, Section 8, clause 16:
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
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Is that your only conclusion to the OP-ED after reading Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper 29?
ffr
Mar 2018
#2
I'm sorry, but you just made a straw man fallacy. I have offered no proposition at this point
ffr
Mar 2018
#4
"When you reply to a sourced article posted on D.U., you are replying to that sourced article."
Eko
Mar 2018
#46
That's a given. Articles are referenced sometimes at the top for LBN, but usually at the bottom.
ffr
Mar 2018
#55
You don't really think those assholes CARE what the constitution says, do you?
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2018
#52
You forget that the findings in Miller were rendered moot by Heller. The same standard applies...
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2018
#69