"Strabo" wrote in message
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In OT Guns more Guns on Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:52:32 -0500, by
Ed Huntress, we read:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:42:42 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
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"The Watcher" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:41:30 -0500, "Ed Huntress"

wrote:


Which is par for the course. The Civil War was fought over States
Rights, and the damned Federalists won. Which only means they inforced
their views, not the Constitution.

A clear case of Might Makes Right, even though its contrary to the
Founders and framers of the Constitution.

It appears you don't know what the framers intended with the Bill of
Rights.

Tell us, Mr. Historian, why is it that the states would demand a Bill of
Rights, only to find that it was a set of restrictions on what the STATES
could legislate? Do you think the states were screaming for the federal
government to limit their power?

Simple answer. They agreed with the power restrictions of the
federal constitution.

The people of the states created the federal constitution. The
rights of individuals overrode federal power and there was
little state imposition on individuals.

Oh, boy. Show us some evidence that the state legislatures, when they
ratified the Bill of Rights, thought they were ratifying restrictions on
THEIR OWN powers, rather than those of the federal government only.

Show us something from before the Civil War that said the Bill of Rights was
a set of restrictions that restricted the states.


They were not the pathetic feminized, sanitized and homogenized
dregs that pass as do many men do today.

I'll bet they passed just the same as any homogenized dreg. g

Ed Huntress