07-21-2018, 05:54 AM
bj139 Wrote:I was only thinking outside the box or maybe fully inside the box as justification for absolute private citizen ownership of M16s since they are the standard military weapon today.
A nagging question I have is whether states have the right to violate a citizen's constitutional rights as enumerated in the US Constitution.
No states do not have that right. The US Constitution has a supremacy clause. Besides, I think States must agree to the Constitution as a pre-req to becoming a state... don't know chapter and verse on that part though.
If this were not true then any of the Bill of rights could be invalidated, such as free speech, assembly, religion, right to vote, due process, search and seizure, etc. Sure in practice it sometimes seems they can get away with it but that's the original design.
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