[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Scott Knitter]

The right was assumed in the Three-Fifths Compromise. Take away the
free persons, "Indians," and those bound to Service for a Term of
Years, and who's left? "three fifths of all other Persons." Art. 1,
Sec. 2, Par. 3

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> On 12/10/15 10:07 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>>
>> Just read a wonderful thought.
>>
>> Back when they wrote the Constitution,
>> the Founding Fathers said you could own a gun.
>> They also said you could own people.
>>
>> Dang. Why didn't *I* think of that?
>
>
> Our brother Louie put around a photo with that quote on Facebook yesterday
> (In very poor grammar (Ebonics?  the photo was of a young Black man of whom
> I've never heard otherwise, but then I'm not up on a lot of "pop culture": I
> find it hard to believe that an English teacher sent that around).
>
> Anyway, the big hole in the quote is that there isn't _anything_ in the
> Constitution or the Bill of Rights (which is part of the Constitution) about
> a Right to own people.  Whoever said it first ("Michael Che?" IIRC) knew as
> little about the Constitution as he did about grammar.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA