I was brought up believing that the constitution was the supreme law of the land. Back when I was still naive enough to believe in the honesty of our government. Today I see alot happening that isn't allowed to happen under the guise of the constitution if we were following the words written there. For example when there was a investigation by the senate into whether or not the constitution enabled all americans to own firearms for our own protection from both foriegn and domestic enemies and as to if these were military arms that our 2nd ammendment was meaning to allow us and not hunting arms.

The senate concluded that we had the rights without restrictions under the constitution yet how many gun control laws were struck down due to their findings?
Instead there are more gun control laws being made daily. I have no belief that our constitution isn't perfect , but it sure beats what the federal government has been using for many many years. If this was true of my beliefs of my youth about our govt, every gun control law is unconstitutional and they would rescind all of them, due to the fact that any law that goes against the constitution is not a law at all and is void and null as our constitution says. Instead they continue to pass them at a rate unbelievable hoping that if said enough times in enough ways that we may start believing it.

Thanks for allowing me to comment.
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"What the subcommittee on the Constitution uncovered was clear - and long lost (?)- proof that the Second Amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for protection of himself, his family, and his freedoms."

-- Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Preface, "The Right To Keep And Bear Arms"

"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

THOMAS JEFFERSON 1821- In a letter to Gideon Granger. Writings of Thomas Jefferson.

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."

[Tench Coxe, an ally and correspondent of James Madison's. Originally published under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," these "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution" first appeared in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, at 2, col. 1. They were reprinted by the New York Packet, June 23, 1789, at 2, cols. 1-2, and by the Boston Centennial, July 4, 1789, at 1, col. 2] ?

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-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p.322

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U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

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"The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable." Thus, the Constitution is either The Supreme Law of the Land, superceding all other laws, or the Constitution is a worthless piece of paper. If the latter, government can do as it pleases. If the former, tyrants have seized sovereignty illegally, it is the duty of the people to put them in their proper place in history.

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