Oren wrote:
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).

Thank you. I keep thinking it was just yesterday...