Folks: I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but this list is not the place for general discussions of constitutional theory, or for what one thinks U.S. constitutional law generally ought to be. The purpose of the con law aspect of this list is to be helpful to legal academics who are working on constitutional issues related to firearms regulation policy. My sense is that discussions of current constitutional law, and plausible proposals for modifying it, are very helpful for that. Likewise for discussions of the original meaning of the Second Amendment and state right to bear arms proposals. But general claims about how a government of enumerated powers ought to operate, or about how various provisions ought to be read -- even though they are not so read, and are unlikely to be so read by modern courts -- are not, I think, terribly useful for those purposes. I might well be mistaken, and I know different people have different views on this question. But my sense as the list custodian is that the list is most useful to its target audience when its constitutional law discussion sticks to the rather narrow framework I discuss above. I'd appreciate it if people could accommodate my preferences on this, even if they disagree with them. Thanks, The list custodian
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