Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is releasing a new book in which he argues that the phrase “when serving in the militia” should be added to the Second Amendment.
The book is titled, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution”
The Second Amendment reads as follows: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
With Stevens’ proposed change: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms [when serving in the Militia] shall not be infringed.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is set to release a new book in which he argues that the phrase “when serving in the militia” should be added to the Second Amendment.
The book is titled, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution,” and the change Stevens has in mind for the Second Amendment would alter the language so as to render it a protection of a collective right instead of an individual one.
Moreover, it would be a right that the government–at all levels–could regulate without hesitation.
Currently, the Second Amendment reads:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Stevens’ contends that this was intended as a collective right only and that it was “limited in scope to the uses of arms related to military activity.”
According to The Washington Post, Stevens claims this was changed via the Supreme Court’s District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision. He says this decision suddenly introduced protections for “a civilian’s right to keep a handgun in his home for purposes of self-defense.”
Stevens says the McDonald v. Chicago (2010) decision furthered these changes by using “the due process clause of the 14th Amendment” to limit the ability of cities to ban the possession of handguns.
He says this can all be remedied by adding five words to the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms [when serving in the Militia] shall not be infringed
the way this court is screwing it up we will need some changes that is for sure!!!
Stevens is an IDIOT and typical of ALL Judges and Lawyers…the LOWEST scum in the U.S.!
the people should be allowed to keep and bear arms all the time not just when serving in a militia.
let me school your dumb ass the phrase (the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed) does not say a damn thing about the people having to be members of a Militia the Militia is there to protect , the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.
who cares what this old harry reid kook says ……
Leave the Constitution alone. Enforce it as ALL those who have sworn to do so , should!
you people should quit trying to change the constitution it has worked for many many years.
Up yours sir.
Armed law abiding US citizens ARE the militia.!
If that be true then why would Patrick Henry of stated, “The great object is, that every man be armed. Every one who is able may have a gun”
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