[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Eleanor Braun]

A little slow on the uptake here, but....

The constitution as adopted had what was called the "fugitive slave
clause", then Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, which read:  "No person held
to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be
discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such service or labour may be due."

This delicately gave effect to state laws allowing slavery [as opposed to
direct federal approval of slavery], and required the return of escaped
slaves.  It was amended out of existence by the 13th Amendment, abolishing
slavery.

Eleanor

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:12 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
>