On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:40:05 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Now if you assert, as you did, that SCOTUS can define the Constitution any
way it sees fit, you must accept that any notion of "militia", by any
definition, is, today, irrelevant. In the Heller case (2010) the court said
the 2nd Amendment conferred an INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms. The vote was
9-0.

The following year, in the McDonald case, SCOTUS declared that the 2nd
Amendment was binding on all the states, this is the so-called
"incorporation doctrine." (There are still parts of the Bill of Rights that
are NOT binding on the states.)


Pardon a minor correction:

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008).

McDonald v. Chicago, 130 S. Ct. 3020 (2010).
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