Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Why the comma before "being" in the Congress Version - 2

One could also say that the generality created by the use of the comma before "being" was not to state the endless continuity of the applicability of  "necessary to the security of a free state" on a "well regulated" militia as the always true understanding of that part would imply. Instead the generality created by the use of that comma was to state the origin of  "necessary to the security of a free state" in a "well regulated" militia as being the general environment in which it existed and not  the "well regulated" militia itself.   

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