The glaring omission in the liberal crusade for civil liberties: The Second Amendment

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I'm not Sailor Steve when it comes to the Constitution, but the way I see it, it's an assertation of these rights, and a consent of the people to be governed according to the system described in the document, so long as that government does not infringe upon our inalienable (or God-given, born-with, every person has them) rights.

It's a contract with ourselves for our form of government. We consent to be governed, in exchange for keeping our inalienable rights.

Thanks to your description mm I think I am finally starting to understand.

Edit:

You know, that's pretty ****ing ingenious actually. I'll have to ring my dad in Ohio and see what he makes of it. The only problem I see is that times change, and your constitution cannot (I am not referring to gun laws here). But that's another topic entirely.

Edit2:

Back to the topic... my previous question "why even debate it" still requires an answer. If the constitution is "inalienable" then there's nothing to debate - any government that tries to change the constitution will by definition cease to be a government, and the general public (the "militia") will presumably forcefully remove them and put a new government in place, right?

Edit3:

No worries, I figured it out. Because prevention is better than cure.

Edit4:

Now I'm confused. I checked Wikipedia and there have been no less than 27 amendments, with the last being as recent as 1992. For something that's "God given" it sure does get changed a lot.