Letter: Response to pardon concordmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from concordmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
No, Joseph Mendola, individual rights are not the foundation of America. The Bill of Rights was an afterthought attached to the Constitution. The foundation is expressed in its preamble, “We the people of the U.S., in order to form a more perfect.
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Letter: Always put the 2nd amendment in historical context
Published: 3/5/2021 12:30:17 PM
This is in response to James Fieseher’s March 1 opinion, “Can we enforce the Second Amendment?” in March 1.
Not only should the main clause of the 2nd Amendment be interpreted in the context of the absolute phrase beginning the sentence, but the entire amendment, along with the other amendments, should be read in the context of the Preamble to the Constitution: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense [no longer dependent on frontier militia], promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United Sates of America.”