к вопросу о 2-й поправке

[slavka]

особенно понравился разбор абсолютно аналогичной фразы:

"A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed."

My questions for the usage analysis of this sentence would be,

(1) Is the grammatical structure and usage of this sentence, and the way the words modify each other, identical to the Second Amendment's sentence?; and

(2) Could this sentence be interpreted to restrict "the right of the people to keep and read Books" only to "a well-educated electorate" - for example, registered voters with a high-school diploma?]

[ Copperud:]
(1) Your "scientific control" sentence precisely parallels the amendment in grammatical structure.

(2) There is nothing in your sentence that either indicates or implies the possibility of a restricted interpretation.

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1444

Comments

[kneejnick1.livejournal.com]

Well-schooled sounds more like brainwashed... yeah "educated".
well-regulated - apparently in the original meaning was "organized".