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Old 06-11-2002, 10:39 AM   #105
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally posted by sycamore


There's ALWAYS wiggle room.

You can always have the right, but that doesn't mean that it can't be restricted, therefore preserving that right. Not that it SHOULD, but it COULD be.
Which is what Ashcroft's guy was saying. My point was there's much less wiggle room in the wording of Commonweath constitution than in the US one, where the reference to militia has created an excuse for decades of confusion.
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