A reader makes an interesting case: Regardless of one’s position on gun-ownership rights and the consequences of those rights, there is one singular problem with the Second Amendment: It is grammatically incorrect and, as a result, nonsensical. Upon completion of his assignment as U.S. minister to France and return from Paris to assume his position as secretary of state under George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the best scribe among the Founding Fathers and possibly the best educated, was appalled at the grammar of the Second Amendment.
The Most Consequential Comma In U.s. History?
Chris Bodenner, The Atlantic: National
Mon, 01/25/2016 - 12:48pm
Topics: u.s france paris george washington thomas jefferson founding fathers rights jefferson&rsquo arms&rdquo militia,&rdquo state.&rdquo jefferson priceonomics american amendment in arms militia state comma misplaced regulated people security bear free official attempted proposed text position gun-ownership phrases
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