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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by throwaway91111 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:50AM (#13920140)
Ahh yes, they spell out their interpretation clearly in the companion manual to the constitution.
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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by rayiner on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:39AM (#13921610)
The companion manual is called a dictionary. The word "witness" means someone who provides testimony based on personal knowledge.

If the framers had meant to say "provide evidence" instead of "be a witness" they would have said that. They were lawyers and those words were commonly used legal terms that meant the same things they do today.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by rtpg on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:33AM (#13920280)
I think it's about the meaning of words when the text was written.

"To bear arms" doesn't mean to have human arms, after all

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