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
Because of individuals like this idiot is that the founding fathers wrote the 2nd Amendment the way they did. A country founded by geniuses and ran by idiots!
Another control Freek! Who controls those that think their the Elite? They are the ones screwing the world and all in it, who controls them? Think About it!
Leave our Constitution alone and honor it as you swore to do!
GET RID OF OBAMHEAD AND LEAVE THE CONSTITUTION ALONE!!!
Stupid old fool, shut up and go away.
Send him with Morgan to England and let him live
Yes leave it alone it tells it right. No change.
BULL $#%&!@* To YOU Sir …….. Our founding Fathers knew exactly why they worded the BILL of RIGHT as they did and it was to prevent the basterdization of it from LIBERL JUSTICES and any one wishing to destroy this COUNTY ……
he’s a liberal who weasels around the law trying to change the letter so that he can deny anone who isn’t part of a “militia”……and just WHO is going to define the meaning of militia?
The whole body of the people IS the militia douchebag!