Prefatory used in a sentence

Prefatory in a sentence as an adjective

Maybe you don't understand what a prefatory clause is?

"The people" are individuals and the prefatory militia clause is not a limit.

I thought of mentioning that in one of those prefatory remarks, but mentioning it would have taken more words than the bits in question.

Yeats, "Pardon, old fathers", the prefatory poem to the book Responsibilities.

Quoting that ruling:The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause.

Let's imagine you're reading a short paper about, say, signal processing, and it says in a footnote or prefatory matter "we use tau for 2 pi".

As the court wrote:> The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause and its operative clause.

[Quick prefatory update: HN's throttling algorithm has decided, on the basis of five comments counting this one over the space of the last hour, that I'm "submitting too fast".

Is that correct?To cover myself, refer again to my prefatory remark that I was generalising enormously.

The prefatory clause it's a part of is a matter of some dispute and interpretation, but the meaning of "well-regulated militia" itself, is clear.

The prefatory clause does not suggest that preserving the militia was the only reason Americans valued the ancient right; most undoubtedly thought it even more important for self-defense and hunting.

>How is it "originalist" to take the 2nd Amendment, which refers to "well regulated Militia," and using it to say there's a Constitutional right to owning a handgun for personal protection...?The relation between the operative clause and the prefatory clause is that, historically, kings had effectively destroyed the militia by forbidding the keeping or bearing of arms.