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
Stevens your an idiot.
The constitution will remain in it’s original form………….PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!
Idiot?
What a ass hole
He is a typical liberal traitor.
leave the constitution along, we don’t need any changes
$#%&!@* YOU OLD MAN……………
Hey moron, in the days that it was written, ALL CITIZENS WERE THE MILITIA. And you know it. Just incase you do not n=know, read the history of the US. Antifederalist and federalist papers. etc. Your book is just another liberal effort to try to change history AGAIN.
Hey moron, in the days that it was written, ALL CITIZENS WERE THE MEMBERS IF THE MILITIA. And you know it. Just incase you do not remember or do not know, read the history of the United States, Thomas, Jefferson’s and Franklin’s works, Also refresh yourself with Paine and other founding fathers. Read the Antifederalist and federalist papers, etc.Or you if are lazy, as your research points out, watch “The Patriot.” To save you time, watch the part Mel played and his son after their house was burned and he recued his son….they visited the towns and asked the militia being called up. EVERYONE HAD AN OBLIGATION TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY, THEY WERE THE MILITIA…but it was voluntary. Simply put – Your book is just another liberal effort to try to change history AGAIN.
The day that God calls you home will be how you’ll be corrected, Justice Stevens.