“The right of the people of a free state security being regulated and well infringed, to bear the arms to keep a militia shall not be necessary.”
It’s all there; nothing changed but the word order. Who’s to say a clerk wasn’t drunk, or the typesetter dropped the galley, or it was garbled in transmission on a mechanical semaphore? It’s a living document.
See, now, that would never happen in Latin. No commas either.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
“The right of the people of a free state security being regulated and well infringed, to bear the arms to keep a militia shall not be necessary.”
It’s all there; nothing changed but the word order. Who’s to say a clerk wasn’t drunk, or the typesetter dropped the galley, or it was garbled in transmission on a mechanical semaphore? It’s a living document.
See, now, that would never happen in Latin. No commas either.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
One too many.