Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn...
by krapp on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:59AM
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The Constitution is a legal document and the foundation of all American law. It turns out a specific definition of "arms" would actually be very useful to the modern legal doctrines of the post-industrial society in which we actually live, as opposed to the pre-industrial agrarian society for which the British re-establishing their colonies, slave revolts and uprisings from Native Americans were problems worth worrying about.
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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn...
by _heimdall on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:34AM
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The second amendment was a reaction to having lived under the oppression of British rule, not concerns over slave revolts or native uprisings.
That aside, the concept of amendments exist for a reason. It's totally reasonable for Congress today to amend the Constitution if a definition of "arms" is now needed. It wouldn't be the first time a new amendment modified or entirely voided an earlier amendment.
What we don't need is court rulings, executive actions, or even new legislation short of an amendment trying to modify or redefine an existing amendment. If an amendment needs to be changed or clarified that needs to happen at the level of another amendment, anything less is short cutting the system and, in my opinion, not democratic.