re:2nd amend from el diaablos

[elwoodblues]

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Maybe the framers only wished to list one of the most important rationales, instead of attempting to provide an exhaustive list (providing a completely exhaustive list might have proved an impossible task; hence they chose only to list the foremost rationale).


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I'll ask a question I've asked before in threads about the second amendment. If we took an eraser to the constitution and deleted the first clause of the second amendment would anything be different (i.e. would you interpret the clause in a different way?) Would the clause have greater reach, less reach, or exactly the same?

If your answers are, as I suspect, that nothing would change --- could you show me other completely superfluous clauses in the Constitution?