The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective)

[hansberrym]

166. Where else indeed

I ask what proof can you provide that Coxe was responding specifically and exclusively to Adams' right to arms proposal. And all you can say is: where else did Coxe get his view that the federal congress could not infringe on militia?
Duh, that is beyond lame.

Of course he must have got it from a proposal two weeks prior that did not even mention the militia, he could have not have got it from the any of the anti-federalists decrying the specific powers that the US Const. actually granted to Congress over the militia.


And the fact that Adams' proposal can be seen as embodying the 1st,2nd and 4th amendments, is not the same as it actually being a draft of any of those amendments. Silly word games is all you have.


However we do know exactly what Coxe wrote when commenting specifically on the actual draft of what became 2A as that draft worked its way through the first Congress.

your response:
The constitutional right to bear private arms was indeed intended primarily for militia service, common defense - an individual right to bear arms in a well regulated militia, tho there was adjunctly no prohibition on home self defense, duh.

Well now there you go, letting some truth slip out. I see that you have changed your tune from exclusively for militia service, to primarily for militia service. Justice Stevens will never forgive you.