After much research, I finally found the Carl Bogus article<http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/Bogus2.htm> that suggests that the Second Amendment was ratified to preseve slavery. Bogus states:
"The Second Amendment was not enacted to provide a check on government tyranny; rather, it was written to assure the Southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by using its newly acquired constitutional authority over the militia to disarm the state militia and thereby destroy the South's principal instrument of slave control. In effect, the Second Amendment supplemented the slavery compromise made at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and obliquely codified in other constitutional provisions." I'd appreciate your comments on this thesis and article. Did anyone write a rebuttal? Thanks Ray Raymond G. Kessler, M.A., J.D. Professor of Criminal Justice Sul Ross State University Alpine, TX 79830 Office phone: 432 837-8166 Please feel free to check out my blog at http://crimelawandjustice.blogspot.com/
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