I wasn't planning on starting a talk about the development history of the Amendment like this, but I wrote some of this part in the preceding post then preferred to make things more organized.
Having that development history of the Amendment, it maybe of special importance here to point out how it seems natural to see that protecting internal freedom and security extends to protecting the external freedom and security but not vice versa. Therefore, the word "state" could have been used without capitalization in those earlier versions of the Amendment also for having external freedom and security as the main test in that general applicability part, but with taking the whole package as the path for that external freedom and security.
In addition, I once before suggested that that development history or part of it could have been intentionally made like this to help the future people. While that may have sounded as far fetched probability at the time, I now imagine having that potential objection that the makers of the Amendment just wrote the word "state" capitalized like it was written everywhere else in the constitution before making this Amendment without paying attention to the consequence of combining that with the first comma, if it were not for those not capitalized "state" words in the earlier versions.
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