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Ikonoklast

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10. Laws are never static in a free society.
Tue Apr 2, 2013, 05:52 AM
Apr 2013

If not for changing the interpretations of the Constitution, and many times amending to circumvent a USSC ruling (the Fourteenth invalidating Dred Scott), this country would be even more regressive than it is.

If we went back to the original intent of the Founders for the Second, it would be interpreted solely as a collective, not individual right, as written. The expansions of those rights came under re-interpretation.

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