If health care is now a "right", and the federal government can compel Americans to buy health insurance, can they also pass a law to compel us to buy guns?
Actually the Militia Act of 1792 did just that. Unfortunately, it had a 5-year expiration date (after the next term.)
That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder...
Under current Supreme Court "reading" of the Commerce Clause, Congress can pass a National Bedtime.
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"OK, kids: go to bed or go to jail!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity we didn't have a Commerce Clause when I had little ones.
Actually the Militia Act of 1792 did just that. Unfortunately, it had a 5-year expiration date (after the next term.)
ReplyDeleteThat every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder...