viciously. Churchill gets much the better of the argument, and
further responds effectively.
Jim Lindgren
Northwestern
--- On Mon, 4/30/12, Henry Schaffer wrote:
From: Henry Schaffer
Subject: Re: Saul Cornell - "A Well Regulated Militia"
To: firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu
Date: Monday
See Nelson Lund, /The Ends of Second Amendment Jurisprudence/, 4 Tex.
Rev. L. & Pol. 157, 183 n.71 (1999); Nelson Lund, /Outsider Voices on
Guns and the Constitution/, 17 Const. Comm. 701, 707-08 & n.28 (2000).
On 4/30/2012 12:09 AM, Joseph E. Olson wrote:
I don't follow Prof. Cornell's career.
There's a lot of information at:
http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/pleadings.html
--henry schaffer
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Phil
From: Joseph E. Olson
To: List Firearms Reg
Cc: postHeller
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 12:09 AM
Subject: Saul Cornell - "A Well Regulated Militia"
I don't follow Prof. Cornell's
I don't follow Prof. Cornell's career. Has anyone published a rebuttal to his
new book or older articles.
Citations would be welcome.
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M.
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:15:48 -0500
Henry E Schaffer wrote:
> My conclusion is that while "militia" means "all able bodied adults"
> (at that time it only included men), adding the modifying "well
> regulated" meant that the militia had to not only exist, i
Add "well regulated" with regard to piano keyboards -- all the keys have the
identical "feel" and all operate flawlessly. The terminology is still used.
*
Professor Jose
all the
barrels of a multi-barreled firearm - such as the common
double-barrelled shotgun, or the relatively uncommon "drilling."
There are many other contemporaneous examples of "regulated" or "well
regulated" having the meaning of "properly functioning" or s
You left out "the security of". But the original meaning of "militia"
translates as "defense service", an activity. In idiomatic English it
is common to make words polysemes,
and in particular, a kind of polyseme I call an actronym,
for a word that originally meant an activity and has come to a
t make one "capable" of serving in the militia. For the militia to
be "well regulated" the people must be permitted to possess arms which the can
use in the event they are needed and they should be familiar with their use
and maintenance. This means that the right to Keep and Bea
age-
>From: Greg Jacobs
>Sent: Feb 2, 2011 11:13 AM
>To: firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu
>Subject: Well regulated
>
>
>> One of the questions surrounding the Second Amendment is, what exactly
>> is a "well regulated" militia? So, what did the phrase "w
One of the questions surrounding the Second Amendment is, what exactly
is a "well regulated" militia? So, what did the phrase "well regulated"
mean at the time? The Oxford English Dictionary has a sample. Gibbon
used it twice.
FYI, not only was that term anciently used a
One of the questions surrounding the Second Amendment is, what exactly
is a "well regulated" militia? So, what did the phrase "well regulated"
mean at the time? The Oxford English Dictionary has a sample. Gibbon
used it twice.
Google now has a tool available which tracks w
Saul Cornell. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the
Origins of Gun Control in America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
xvi + 218 pp.
Illustrations, notes, index.
$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-514786-5.
Reviewed by: Robert H. Churchill,
Department of Humanities
>From Dave Hardy's web page.
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/WellRegulatedinold%20literature.pdf
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142
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ssly limitted by Law, for constructing a
Fort at Winchester, and they are informed £10,000 hath been expended. -- That a
well regulated Militia is the true and natural Defence of every free State, and
praying that the Expence of building the Fort, and the Conduct of the Forces in
the Pay of this Colon
A law lecture on the Washington Post editorial page to inform us all.
Phil
A Well-Regulated Right to Bear Arms
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Wednesday, March 14, 2007; Page A15
In striking down the District of Columbia's handgun ban last week, a
federal appeals court raised the crucial constitut
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