Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: What did the Founders mean... [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,692 posts)However, the fact that some of the founders made many mistakes does not serve to show that the second amendment was an error or that the founding documents were in some way unsound.
I suggest that the people and the world are the judges of what was done near the close of the eighteenth century in my hometown of Philadelphia. The articulation of the principles upon which the nation is to operate, the division of power among branches and levels of government and the rights due each of us and the protections accorded to them has become a pursuit of people and developing governments everywhere. 
https://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/gov/constexport.pdf
"Since that seventeenth day of September 1787, a  one-document  constitution  has  been  deemed an essential characteristic of nationhood. Today, of the 192 independent nations of the world, all but  a  very  few  have  such  a  constitution  or  are committed to having one.
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Albert  P.  Blaustein  was  professor  of  law  at  Rutgers...School  of  Law. He authored numerous scholarly works on the subject of  constitutionalism  including  a  sixvolume  work on  the  U.S.  Constitution  entitled Constitution  of Dependencies  and  Special  Sovereignties. Blaustein helped  draft  more  than  40  constitutions  worldwide and  visited  many  of  those  countries.  In  1991,  he helped  to  write  the  constitution  for  the  Russian Republic."
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