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Originally Posted by Black Jesus
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The 10 commandments are Islamic. Also let's not make assumptions pertaining to my religion.
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I didn't. You
inferred Christianity, did u not? Christmas trees (new testament) and 10 commandments? If you'd been talking Hanukkah I'd have figured Jadaism. But the pen strokes of Jesus...
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Originally Posted by Black Jesus
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It doesn't matter what the states ratified, what matters is what Jefferson put into the constitution, with his pen strokes guided by the power of Jesus.
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which brings us back to what he meant about separation of church and state. he's the one that explained it...then you brought courts and stuffz up.
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CA does have militias, they just disguise themselves as bowling clubs. Actually some don't even go that far. I'm surprised it hasn't been challenged more in the courts actually.
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Me too tbh. But the point stands about none of them being what the framers had in mind about militias.
Let me here call your attention to that part which gives the Congress power "to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such a part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States -- reserving to the states, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress." By this, sir, you see that their control over our last and best defense is unlimited. If they neglect or refuse to discipline or arm our militia, they will be useless: the states can do neither -- this power being exclusively given to Congress. The power of appointing officers over men not disciplines or armed is ridiculous; so that this pretended little remains of power left to the states may, at the pleasure of Congress, be rendered nugatory. . . . Will the oppressor let go of the oppressed? Can the annal of mankind exhibit one single example where rulers overcharged with power willingly let go of the oppressed, though solicited and requested most earnestly? The application for amendments will therefore be fruitless. Sometimes the oppressed have got loose by one of those bloody struggles that desolate a country; but a willing relinquishment of power is one of those things which human nature never was, nor ever will be, capable of.