[lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy)

[Shane Mage]

>If the Framers meant to support the
>>  individual
>>  rights interpretation, they shoulda said so.
>>
>>  But of course "they" did, in the most unequivocal
>>  terms.
>>  The very first phrase of the Constitution--"*We* the
>>  people"--
>>  defines "people" as a plural, not a collective,
>>  noun.
>
>A distinction that I am sure was much discussed in the
>ratification debate, only it seems to have been
>somehwo omitted from, by Library of America set, The
Debate On The Constitution. . . .

Why discuss what anyone [except the lawyers] learned in elementary
school--that in the English language [except from the the filthy mouths of
Kings and Queens] the word "we" is plural?

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos