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
just another mental degenerate that wants his 15 minuets of fame!
and that alone–Ladies and Gentlemen — would take away right your to bear arms–and the fundimental reason it is worded as it is–so we can protect ourselves from the kind of government we now have in the white house
the founders said it the way they thought it, there is a reason it doesn’t say…while serving…
I don’t agree…
THE SECOND AMENDMENT DOES NOT NEED CORRECTING YOU NEED TO JUST LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANS ALL PEOPLE NOT JUST A MILITIA
OK, I’m in for the fight if a constitutional convention quorum of states shows up !
Screw you you control freak
screw the old dumass they knew what they were doing and they did it for fools like him
It doesn’t NEED TO BE CORRECTED..stay retired please..you people have done enough damage already.
No I don’t think so….