The corruption of democracy begin in 1886 (1 Viewer)

[ChristopherDahl]

with the case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company. At least that's when it became legitimized.

Lets take democracy away from the money that buys the loudest voices. Check out Only a Human Being is a "Person" at www.americasbalance.org

 

[TurtleDude]

we never had a democracy. (thank God). some of your "party's" ideas make me wonder. If I pay a third of my income in taxes I have already given plenty of forced labor to the state-I don't need a "civil draft". I also have no use for requiring training to exercise my second amendment rights-(though on voting it might make sense:mrgreen: ). That you consider "well regulated" to somehow empower the federal government to regulate weapons possession demonstrates a misunderstanding of the constitution of such a magnitude I can't take your position very seriously

you say: he phrase Well Regulated Militia would seem to offer justification for just about any kind of licensing, record-keeping or background checks, just so long as no one is ever denied possession of a firearm without due cause.

1) you don't have to be in the militia to own weapons. its a sufficient but not necessary reason to own a weapon. at 47 I am too old to be in the militia but my rights (which if not protected by the2nd are clearly guaranteed by the 9th)

2) saying well regulated empowers the federal government (the body of the constitution does not-hence modern federal gun control uses the fiction of an expanded commerce clause) to regulate demonstrates an extremely ignorant view that the Bill of Rights is another source of power for the federal government