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Old June 12, 2009, 09:01 PM   #23
Tom Servo
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Hadn't known this:
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The Fourteenth Amendment’s Senate sponsor,
Senator Jacob Howard, explained the Privileges or Immunities Clause’s incorporating scope:
To these privileges and immunities, whatever they may be – for they are not and cannot be fully defined in their entire extent and precise nature – to these should be added the personal rights guarantied and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech, (...) and the right to keep and to bear arms. . . . The great object of the first section of this amendment is, therefore, to restrain the power of the States and compel them at all times to respect these great fundamental guarantees.
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