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The 2nd Amendment is an amendment that was important when the nation was new, but it was for one purpose only, and that was the purpose of having militiamen who were able to fight to preserve the nation.

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The 2nd Amendment is historically rooted in the fact that the new government had no money to pay for an army so men were required to serve in the state militias and were required to have the necessary weapons if they were called to do service as militiamen.

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Abortion is the state controlling a woman, and thus amounts to denying her full autonomy and full equality.

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Abortion is a policy that necessarily and only affects poor women in that woman of means will never again be without choice and can always travel to a pro-choice state.

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Active liberty is not about allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.

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Congress could always stop the President if it thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.

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Dissenting opinion (legal) is not simply to say, my colleagues are wrong; rather, it is written for tomorrow, as the greatest dissents become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view.

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Equality is the principle at the heart of the Constitution, and it is important to make it everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.