BoatShoes;1516393 wrote:All fundamental rights can be regulated when there is a compelling public interest for doing so.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson coauthored a bill in the Virginia Legislature that would've limited individuals from carrying long guns outside of their homes when it wasn't hunting season unless they were on active duty militia.
Their fellow contemporary in the Virginia Legislature, Isaac Shelby, went on to become the first governor of Kentucky and then in his second go around was the first to sign a law outlawing concealed firearms in 1813 while James Madison was president and he didn't say a word about it.
All of these men were Democratic-Republicans....AKA the original tea partiers.
Nevermind of course all of the southern states that outlawed free black men from carrying firearms in those early days.
Ironic you use examples of those espousing state not federal power to make your case. Perhaps Boat you have fallen prey to those like Harry Reid that attempt to portray the Tea Party as anarchists.
BoatShoes;1516393 wrote:All fundamental rights are subject to reasonable regulation when there's a compelling interest for doing so and the founding fathers and their contemporaries regularly provided support for the notion that these rights may be regulated.
True they are. Some of us just believe that the Constitution has something to say as to which levels of governance hold regulating authority over those fundamental rights.
