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
don’t change the constitution .
A WHOLE GOVERNMENT FULL OF DUMBASSES WHO DONT KNOW THE CONSTITUTION RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT, NOT THE PEOPLE..
The 2nd amendment does not need to be chanced!!
Glad he’s gone he’s a f#¥€+’g. Idiot!! And a traitor!!
What about the people that could be subject to “call up” in a National Emergency?
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/
TRAITOR! The founders referred to the able bodied people to own guns. ‘Not just the military. Washington, himself, said the people should be armed and even to fight their own government, if need be.
Amen, nothing is said about a militia, only that we as citizens have the right to own and bear arms, careful folks, changing even one word of the second amendment could have devastating consequences
Stevens is simply an elderly poot.
retire into the sunset dumbass and leave things alone