01-01-2017, 03:12 AM
(01-01-2017, 02:14 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Oh Bob, you keep saying decisions on guns by the Supreme Court were Jim Crow decisions. How quaint and utterly false. But yes the Thurgood Marshall/Earl Warren Court properly restored the federal government's authority to enforce the constitution. Certainly that was the original intent, since the entire constitution came about because of the need for federal authority to control the riots and uprisings of the Articles era.
I also keep saying you should read the old decisions. The Jim Crow era courts consistently denied the rights of blacks in the south. They used the same approach with the 2nd Amendment as they did to quash the rest of the Bill of Rights. The modern cases that repealed the Jim Crow approach are consistent between the Marshall / Warren efforts and the recent cases restoring the original meaning of the 2nd.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.