Tuesday, November 20, 2018

+216 (second amendment interpretation 161: Capitalized "state" and Local vs.General specificity-2:unexpected support from the development history)

I was just thinking about how the preceding post could be just a headache because of a far fetched probability, when I noticed this very interesting thing in support of it in the development of the amendment (link provided in post +214). I noticed how the "of" in the versions leading to the final, containing "being the best security of a free state" (and also the closest version to the final version according to a saved earlier version I have of that wikipedia article which do not have the word "best"),  imply belonging, unlike, at least at the technical level, the word "to", which when brought into the middle of the connection to that belonging, as part of "necessary to", the word "state" got capitalized.  

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