I again looked at the development of the amendment available to me through the section in the Wikipedia Article about the amendment titled Conflict and compromise in Congress produce the Bill of Rights to see how what I said fit.
Starting from the earliest, post +211, if the capitalization of the word "state" is for the purpose mentioned there, how about all those earlier versions with the word "state" not capitalized? However I also realized that I was wrong in thinking that capitalization is needed for that purpose because I myself did not make good use of the first comma and started from the target instead of the whole environment when measuring changes that may affect the status of the necessity of the militia.
In the post about the word "free", I took that word as referring to freedom in the sense of not being attached to another entity. Even if describing the militia as being "the best security of a free state (State)" can be seen to fit that, the description of the militia as "the security of a free state" in the saved version I have for this article (I need to look better for more reliable source for the development of the amendment) cant be.
In post +212, the theory there put direction as the purpose for capitalizing the word "state" while taking that capitalization for the side of the collective view imply a purpose of both directional and locational qualities. However, according to the versions in my reference source here, every time the word "military", which supports the directional purpose, gets mentioned, the word "state" comes with no capitalization. Also, the versions toward the end with the word "state" not capitalized suggest going back and forth on the issue which fits something that requires judgment calls like the purpose in my theory not something at the root of what should have been already decided like that of the collective view interpretation.
But, I also realized yesterday that despite having those on that side not arguing the type of conditionality in the amendment for which I stand, I may not need to argue against the collective view itself for my purpose.
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