Comment by otterley
1 day ago
You did not. This is the answer of someone who has lost the argument and knows it, but refuses to admit it. The door is that way; kindly let yourself out.
1 day ago
You did not. This is the answer of someone who has lost the argument and knows it, but refuses to admit it. The door is that way; kindly let yourself out.
Since you're pretending to be a lawyer and losing an argument I'll highlight the part that answers the question:
>"shall not be infringed" and "shall not be violated" do not leave loopholes. It's quite clear.
I am not pretending to be a lawyer and will happily send you my bona fides. Feel free to email me at otterley at otterley dot org.
There's a branch of government who's job is to write laws, who's job is to interpret laws and one who's job is to enforce laws.
Which one are you?
All three. The people. Do you know what a Constitutional Republic is? Do you realize the American government is a government of servants? That some of them have forgotten that changes nothing.
Of the people, by the people, and for the people still stands:
>Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
>Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
>But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
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