tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post116579165792823769..comments2024-03-24T18:18:35.272-05:00Comments on BALLSEYE'S BOOMERS: Ever Wonder Why We Have the 2nd Amendment...Glenn Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-1165857903193532302006-12-11T11:25:00.000-06:002006-12-11T11:25:00.000-06:00So in essence these documents would tend to suppor...So in essence these documents would tend to support the claim that the 2nd Amendment was written to support a secure free state, wouldn't they?<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/>Glenn BGlenn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16677859688487279914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32768818.post-1165794571804488972006-12-10T17:49:00.000-06:002006-12-10T17:49:00.000-06:00link for american history please read some of itht...link for american history please read some of it<BR/>http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/index.shtml<BR/><BR/>you make no mention of the Declaration of Independence. the troubles the colonies had with the UK which the colony founders left for civil and religious freedom from the land they removed themselves from. the great risk they took by leaving which was quite easily death, traveling to a strange land across a sea to go to a land fill with unknown. <BR/><BR/>articles of confederation another good source and document pre-existing to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. which had article 6 stating <BR/><BR/>VI. <BR/> No State, without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King, Prince or State; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any King, Prince or foreign State; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility. <BR/><BR/> No two or more States shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue. <BR/><BR/> No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any King, Prince or State, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain. <BR/><BR/> No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled, for the defense of such State, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgement of the United States in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such State; but every State shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of filed pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage. <BR/><BR/> No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the Kingdom or State and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States in Congress assembled shall determine otherwise. <BR/><BR/>Declaration of Independence<BR/> July 4, 1776 <BR/> The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united* States of America. <BR/> When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. <BR/><BR/> We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shown that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com