Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: How is Meatloaf's 'Id Do Anything for Love' like the 2nd Amendment? [View all]sarisataka
(21,221 posts)Of the individual rights; I'm glad to see you have come around. The last paragraph is clear:
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
Indeed, even prior to the rulings that specifically guaranteed to BoR protections at the state level, {disarming the people} by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
The use of the word corollary, defined by Webster as:
1: a proposition (see 1proposition 1c) inferred immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof
2a : something that naturally follows : result < love was a stormy passion and jealousy its normal corollary. Ida Treat>
b : something that incidentally or naturally accompanies or parallels <A corollary to the problem of the number of vessels to be built was that of the types of vessels to be constructed. Daniel Marx>
Does not support your position that the individual right is derived, i.e. dependent on, the militia, rather proven by it. Individuals have the right to keep and bear arms and, if anything, their right to belong to a state militia has been abrogated by the Federalization of command of the National Guard. As I have speculated in the past, there is a good argument that the 1903 Militia Act is unconstitutional. I'm not saying it wasn't the correct thing to do as the state militias were woefully neglected but government neglect does not void any rights.