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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > § 311Prev | Next § 311. Militia: composition and classes
How Current is This? (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
yes, we do. you included.
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well regulated militia" clearly excludes the definition you bolded.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
no, i said YOU were silly for trying to read it as a militia right instead of a right of the people. plain text and all.
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I'm silly, but by extension so are those who wrote the words I am clarifying.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
yes, some of the most brilliant minds in our history of a nation needed grammar skills.  |
They wrote the amendment in a sentence structure taken from Latin instead of English. That means, according to the language the Constitution and BOR were written in, the sentence is grammatically incorrect.