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PHORTO
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“The Second Amendment protects and preserves that right, and the state of Idaho has a duty to protect the constitution and all the rights endowed upon us there.”
Words mean things. This is an excellent sentence, perfect were it not for this unfortunate phrase "endowed upon us". The Constitution doesn't "endow" rights, it guarantees them. The rights are endowed by our Creator, or by the laws of nature, if you prefer.
That phrase should be replaced with the simple, succinct word "guaranteed." The notion that our rights are "endowed" by any instrument or decree is dangerous, and the difference should be hammered home. |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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