They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.
"[T]he nation is arming," says Angle, because the people "are afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways".
"The nation is arming," she recently repeated, because people are "afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more second-amendment kinds of ways"—ie, with the arms that the constitution allows them to bear.
"The First Amendment is kind of like an old car that you keep in your garage and everyone once and awhile you have to take that car out and drive it to make sure it still works," says Monica Hopkins-MaxwExecutiveutive Director of the Washington DC chapter of the ACLU.
Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, who had negotiated with Mr. Dodd after talks between Mr. Dodd and Mr. Shelby broke down, said after the meeting that the decision to shelve all the amendments was "kind of unorthodox".
The Tenth Amendment is really kind of a mystery.
Normally amendments of this kind just highlight the opposition's complaints about a bill.
As Stevens acknowledges, he chose his amendments for a kind of idealized republic, not because he thinks they'll actually be adopted.
Lady Stowell, a government whip, told peers in her wind-up speech that the government would not necessarily object to amendments of this kind.
