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
No. The Second Amendment is fine the way it is.
well that would call for the states to ratify a change they can’t “legally” just go in and change the damned wording. Of course I am sure the don’t teach this in school anymore but they have to ratify changes
put him in a asilam were he and meny more belong
HEY MISTER YOU LET YOUR EX TITLE GO TO YOUR HEAD TURNED IT TO $#%&!@*. YOUR THE REASON THE 2 ND AMENDENT WILL COST A LOT OF PEOPLE TO DIE IF THE GOVERNMENT TURNS OUR ARMY AGAINST US ,THE END OF AMERICA, CIVIL WAR WILL LOOK LIKE ICE CREAM SOCIAL. NEVADA, A GOOD PLACE TO START OR CT.
So glad that old fool wasn’t a founding father!
leave the constitution alone. the framers of our country fought a hard battle to win the freedoms they passed on to us and it is our jop to pass our freedoms INTACT to future generations
He and Pelousy should get together and share a fruit cup…
If this idiot had a brain he would spit it out on the pavement and p**s on it. May he roast in hell soon!!!!!!!!!
u correct it by leaving it alone
This old $#%&!@* is trying to change it,, This old p***k should keep his mouth shut..