Via LtU, Types and Programming Languages, by Benjamin C. Pierce, looks like yet another excellent book I can't afford and wouldn't get to read in the near future anyway. Sigh.
Woo hoo, finally, no more bogus comments about DeadAIM. With the checking of a checkbox, I can enable or disable comments. Finally.
Now the only question is whether I should automatically have comments disabled on posts that are older than N days, or that haven't had a comment in N days. I'll see if that becomes a problem.
For all who don't understand, Steven Den Beste explains what we've been doing over the past few years and gives an outline of what our long term strategy is. It reads like a history of the recent past and near future, and it's pretty fascinating in that light.
Randy Barnett, professor at the Boston University School of Law, is guest blogging for Glenn Reynolds this week, and has a paper entitled: Is the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Conditioned on a Militia? (PDF, watch out)
If you follow the debates over the meaning of this amendment, you may have noticed a shift in the position advocated by those who object to its being used to protect an individual right. These objectors used to assert with supreme confidence that, unlike the rest of the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment originally protected a "collective" right of states to maintain their militias. Over the past 10 years, this argument was met with withering refutation by scholars such as Glenn who presented historical evidence that the amendment protected an individual right on a par with, for example, the individual rights protected in the First Amendment.
Tellingly, not a single example has been found of a person from the founding era actually expressing the "collective rights" view of either the amendment or the right to arms that these anti-individual right writers contended that everyone held. Not one.
Now the argument of these critics of the individual rights interpretation has changed. The new refrain is that, while the amendment does indeed protect an individual right, the exercise of this right is conditioned on the existence of and participation in a state militia. Curiously, the fact their position has changed is never acknowledged, but nevertheless they remain just as self-righteous in their new beliefs and just as acerbic as ever about individual rights scholars.
Monday, July 21, 2003
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