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- From: k@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Kao)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:38:37 GMT
- Subject: Re: [ACLU] A History of the Bill of Rights
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- Clayton Cramer posted ACLU Position #47 in response to a request from
- Frank Crary. The following is taken from that paper.
-
- > We concur with repeated rulings of every court that has ruled on
- > the issue--including the U.S. Suprme Court--that the Constitution's
- > Second Amendment provision for militia never has meant that all
- > individuals have a right to own all kinds of firearms.
-
- The following is from a recent Supreme Court decision.
-
- > "... 'the people' seems to have been a term of art employed in
- > select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the
- > Constitution is ordained, and established by 'the people of the
- > the U.S.' The Second Amendment protects the right of the people
- > to keep and bear Arms ...."
- > - Supreme Court of the U.S., U.S. v. Uerdugo-Uriquidez (1990).
-
- Perhaps the ACLU hasn't been keeping up with recent Supreme Court
- decisions.
-