Senate Proceeding on Aug 5th, 2010 :: 4:05:20 to 4:07:25
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John Ensign: was thearp intent with regard to -- their intent with regard to preserving the right to keep bear arms when this language went in the constitution? mr. ensign: well, i know that our founders certainly look the add prominent philosophers when debating the importance of keeping the right to bear arms? william blackfield, the

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Speech By: John Ensign

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John Ensign: preeminent expert on arms, says the right tow keep and bear arms calls up the natural right of resistance and self-presser vairks the right of having an using arms for self-preservation and defense." judge st. george tucker who wrote the first commentator on the constitution in 1803 described the second amendment

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John Ensign: as "the true palladium of liberty." and he continued, "the right to self-defense is the first law of nature. in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible. where ever standing arms are kept up and the peat right of people to keep and bear arms is

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John Ensign: under any color or pretext whatsoever prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." judge tucker also said, "if, for example, a law passed by congress prohibiting the free excise of religion or bridging the freedom of speech or of the press or of the right of the

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John Ensign: people to assemble peaceably or to keep and bear arms, it would in any of these cases be the province of the judiciary to pronounce whether any such act were constitutional. the judiciary, therefore, is the department of the government to whom the protection of these

4:07:06 to 4:07:25( Edit History Discussion )

John Ensign: rights of the individual is, by the constitution, especially confided. interposing a shield and the sword of usurped authority, the darts of oppression, and the safety of faction and violence." end quote. i would like to ask my colleague