@parados,
Quote:
YOu think the 2nd amendment is there to commit treason?
You are beyond a complete idiot.
Historically,
u r very lacking in justification
for accusing CJ of idiocy for his mentioning
what the very Founders who wrote in the treason provision,
themselves argued
:
that the citizens coud overthrow government. Thay argued this
in supporting ratification of the Constitution which included
the treason provision.
Morally, u shoud
apologize to CJ
for impugning his accuracy.
It was argued in the Federalist
that if government got out of hand,
then the citizens, in their own militia, woud
remove it.
In support of that concept,
the First Congress capped the maximum size of the US Army
at 840 men, whereas the citizens' militia were many tens of 1000s.
Indeed, my own jurisdiction, NY, as well as a few other states,
explicitly set forth in their instruments of ratification
that the state reserved the right to withdraw from the union,
if it deemed that to be necessary for its happiness;
(tho, of course, the state acted contrary to that principle
[as against other states] in the Civil War).
Note that the Founders believed this to be true even
BEFORE
enactment of the 2nd Amendment.
00/04/17 New York Instrument of Ratification of the Constitution
Record Group 11, The National Archives, Washington, DC
“ That
the powers of government may be reassumed
by the people whensoever it shall become necessary to
their happinesss ....
That
the People have a right to keep and bear Arms;
that a well regulated
Militia, including the body of the People
capable of bearing Arms,
is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State;
That the Militia should not be subject to Martial Law,
except in time of War, Rebellion or Insurrection."
THEN: Be it known that We the People of the State of New York,
Incorporated in statehood under the Authority of The Constitution
of the United States of America by the New York Instrument of
Ratification, thus are graced by the full benefits and liberties
predicated under that document; or we are made
and
held captive under Unlawful Powers to which Under God
we cannot, must not, and
do not submit.” [emphasis added by David]