>>407530Surely, you had English class in grade school? Perhaps you called it Communications there, or something similar.
Surely, in this class you were taught about sentence structure, and learned about these neat things called clauses.
Surely, with the proper prompting, you can recall there are two types of clauses, dependent and independent.
Now, let's take another look at the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
>A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.This sentence is made out of clauses! Wow!
>A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,This is called a dependent clause! Notice how when read by itself, it means exactly nothing? It's not even a complete sentence! That's because it requires an independent clause to support it and give it meaning! English is neat!
>the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.This is called an independent clause! See how it's a complete sentence, full of meaning, and stands all by itself? That's because this is the guts of the complete sentence! This is the idea that was actually being expressed by the writers! The dependent clause serves only to augment the full idea expressed in the independent clause.
So, what were the architects of the United States' Bill of Rights actually saying? They were saying "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It's simple linguistics.
