"harry" wrote in message
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On Feb 1, 3:22 pm, George Washington
wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Regulated - Functioning according to standards, i.e., a weapon that
works.

We would have said "a well APPOINTED" or "a well EQUIPPED" militia - if
that's what we intended.

But we said "a well regulated" militia - meaning that it was those that
possessed the arms that we were intending to regulate.

In my book "regulated" means organised and disciplined.
ie not a rabble. Which is what you have today.

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Some would say rabble is a good discription of both Congress and the Senate.