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The Authors' Reply To Commentaries On, And Criticisms Of The Militia And The Right To Arms, Or, How The Second Amendment Fell Silent, H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel
The Authors' Reply To Commentaries On, And Criticisms Of The Militia And The Right To Arms, Or, How The Second Amendment Fell Silent, H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel
William G. Merkel
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Response To “Necessary To The Security Of Free States: The Second Amendment As The Auxiliary Right Of Federalism”, William G. Merkel
Response To “Necessary To The Security Of Free States: The Second Amendment As The Auxiliary Right Of Federalism”, William G. Merkel
William G. Merkel
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A Cultural Turn: Reflections On Recent Historical And Legal Writing On The Second Amendment
A Cultural Turn: Reflections On Recent Historical And Legal Writing On The Second Amendment
William G. Merkel
If commentators on the Second Amendment agree about anything at all, it is only that disputants parsing the meaning and importance of the constitutional right to arms cannot avoid involvement in a larger cultural war (and this is the term almost everyone employs)I over the meaning and importance (vel non) of gun ownership to the American psyche and soul. Almost every scholar discussed in this short, inexhaustive review of recent literature calls for reasoned moderation (the other calls for well armed chaos),2 but most writers in the field, including this one, and including those who neither own nor wish the …