
Judge Rudofsky Talks Corpus Linguistics
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Bar Arms - Is This a Typical Case?
Experts have searched over 120 thousand founding erra texts from between 17 60 and 17 99 for historical uses of the phrase bar arms. They concluded that the phrase was overwhelming used to refer to war, soldiering or other forms of armed action by a group rather than an individual. Non military uses of bare arms in reference to hunting or personal self defense are not just rare, they're almost non existent. But where am i finding a searchable data base of all these founding aera texts? Is this a reasonable sort of ask for an attorney in a typical case?"
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