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
Leave the hell alone, Supreme Court is what needs changing
former guess this is why —you retired so stay that way lib
Stevens is a demented old fart.
that’s why you are retired!
We do not change the Constitution, we change leadership you brainless putz.
Moron.
THATS THE REASON THE OLD FART IS RETIRED NOBODY REWRITES THE CONSTITUTION GOT TO BE A DUMMYCRAT
God gives you the choices!!!!!.
if you know the reasons, you can do something about, that is how you learn. Learn from Jesus, the only one, the one, who knows, he speak:
Quote “People , in the past, and also in present time, directed their live according to ‘old wives tales’, the power ancestors and other legends. They believed in them simplicity , the limitations imposed by these beliefs restricted people’s action and activities.
Dancing was believed to be sinful and wicked by certain ‘Christian’ sects for instance. Therefore, many people who would have derived great happiness and release from stress when dancing,were wrongfully denied this pleasure.
Religion comes under the same heading, beliefs are the very substance of religion. They are founded on age-old happenings which are nothing but belief. The beliefs may have been relevant to the general mindset of those times, but they have long since become irrelevant in a constantly changing world, yet they are strictly adhered to and became the focus of worship, festivities, celebrations, mourning – and more destructive – they come the reason for men killing one another and causing horrific misery to women ad children.
Certain religion claim that ‘God is everywhere and is all things’ but also affirm dogmatically, that no one knows the ‘mind of God’, or the reason why people kill one another – it may be in God’s plan, they say. With mindsets composed of a conglomeration of illogical beliefs, where can mankind, at this present time, find any certainty of beauty , joy, health, well-being, love?
Religious ideas present a ‘God’ whose ‘will’ can bring life and healing or death and destruction. In such beliefs, there is no certainty of anything other than uncertainty.
With such a belief, any sickness or abnormality can be excused as being ‘God will”. It is your BELIEFS which control all your expectations of what life may hand out in the future”. Unquote
God gives you the choices, it is you and only you can make that decision, you can not blame anyone but yourselves, forget what others think and do what best for you, but at the same time bare a thought of the welfare of others, as long as you not hurting anyone and is helping others is all God wants, Jesus will show you how.
God Bless.
Someone should lead him by the nose and water-board him. He, he.
ah hes full of $#%&!@* as most lawyers are. try to read stuff in thats isnt there