Well, he told the federales to forget about Montana implementing ReadID, so maybe, just maybe...
Heh! You're right. But I'll see your No-REALID by the Governor, and raise one open letter to the Supreme Court by Montana's current Secretary of State, the Honorable Brad Johnson:
http://www.progunleaders.org/Heller/Text from above link:
Second Amendment an individual rightThe U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide D.C. v. Heller, the first case in more than 60 years in which the court will confront the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although Heller is about the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban, the court's decision will have an impact far beyond the District ("Promises breached," Op-Ed, Thursday).
The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is called the "collective rights" theory.
A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms, clearly an individual right.
There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of "any person" to bear arms.
As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states
Numerous Montana lawmakers have concurred in a resolution raising this contract-violation issue. It's posted at progunleaders.org. The United States would do well to keep its contractual promise to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.
BRAD JOHNSON
Montana secretary of state
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Here we see Montana's Secretary of State advising the U.S. Supreme Court back in February, 2008, that Montana's compact with the Federal government could come into question if the SCOTUS decided in favor of the "collective rights" interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Last time I looked, there were forty Montana Senators, Representatives, and officials signed on to this letter by way of showing their support for Sec. Johnson on this issue. You'll recall that SCOTUS did rule the 2A to be an individual right, as opposed to a collective right. I like to think that Mr. Johnson's open letter helped the SCOTUS focus on facts instead of the statist hocus-pocus, yes?
Salute!
Elias
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