{"id":9645,"date":"2015-08-05T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2015-08-05T00:02:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T07:02:27","slug":"a-2nd-amendment-grammar-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/08\/05\/a-2nd-amendment-grammar-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"A 2nd Amendment Grammar Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Blithering idjit Chris Hayes seems <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2015\/07\/24\/underpants-gnome-constitutionalism-chris-hayes-attempts-to-interpret-the-2nd-amendment-fails\/\" target=\"_blank\">incapable of understanding<\/a> a simple sentence in English, to whit: The 2nd Amendment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Supreme Court in Heller basically deleted the &quot;well regulated militia&quot; portion of the 2nd Amendment. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/textualism?src=hash\">#textualism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/inners?src=hash\">#inners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislhayes\/status\/624735107916541952\">July 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Aside from the rather straight-forward explanation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/07-290.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Heller<\/a> decision (which was correct because it was correct, not because of the balance of nine black-robed juctices), the fact that the 2nd Amendment was right held by <em>individuals<\/em> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.law.ucla.edu\/volokh\/2amteach\/sources.htm\" target=\"_blank\">well established<\/a> by the courts.\u00a0 Moreover, it has been established by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/2ll\/schol\/2amd_grammar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">English language<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9646\" title=\"2nd Amendment Breakfast\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Breakfast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Breakfast.jpg 599w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Breakfast-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Aik5Hzgxtoo\/UPb3YwPNrRI\/AAAAAAAAAV8\/8hT8MJJRULI\/s1600\/2nd+Amendment.gif\" target=\"_blank\">example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9647\" title=\"2nd Amendment Grammar\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Grammar.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Grammar.gif 827w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Grammar-300x227.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Debate during townhalls being necessary for democracy, the right of the people to free speech shall not be infringed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is that a protection of the right of the people or\u00a0 of the townhall?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/ah-billrights.html\" target=\"_blank\">full text of the Bill of Rights<\/a> makes it clear that the &#8220;right of the people&#8221; was a declarative one&#8230; it was not <em>granted<\/em> by the government, but simply acknowledged as preceding it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A right of the people is a right of the people.\u00a0 Not the Federal government.\u00a0 Not even of the states.\u00a0 But a fundamental right that precedes any formation of government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;We hold these truths to be self evident\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"A 2nd Amendment Grammar Lesson\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Blithering idjit Chris Hayes seems incapable of understanding a simple sentence in English, to whit: The 2nd Amendment.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2nd-Amendment-Breakfast.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Blithering idjit Chris Hayes seems incapable of understanding a simple sentence in English, to whit: The 2nd Amendment: The Supreme Court in Heller basically deleted the &quot;well regulated militia&quot; portion of the 2nd Amendment. #textualism #inners &mdash; Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/08\/05\/a-2nd-amendment-grammar-lesson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[41,51],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-rights","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9678,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}