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 this is not the wAY to change the constitution to suit your means,$#%&!@* it’s fine just the way it is!
Former judge due to alzheimer’s? That is like auto racing after becoming cross eyed.
He fails to observe the placement of the comma in the amendment. Its placement after the word State and then again after the word Arms seperates the right of the people from the right of the militia making them separate but covered under one amendment.
Apparently he forgot the laws passed in the 1700’s and 1800’s that makes EVERY Citizen between the ages of 14 and 60 a part of the Standing Militia….
Liberals make me sick
Men with protected this p***k!!
You sir are an idiot
DIE already – senile rat-face git
it needs no correction it wrote so we can stand up to people like you who try to make slaves out of us we are your worst night mare because we think for our selfs
THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS CORRECT RIGHT NOW !!!!! HAS BEEN CORRECT FOR OVER 200 YEARS !!!!
Um no works just fine the way its written thanks