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Understanding The Second Amendment, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Understanding The Second Amendment, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” These might be the most awkwardly assembled twentyseven words in American political history. Much like reading James Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE or William Faulkner’s THE SOUND AND THE FURY, the Second Amendment takes repeated review to grasp even basic understanding.1 Though few teachers would accept such garbled prose from students, early Americas accepted this so-called sentence as part of our Bill of Rights -- the most important protections granted to states and individuals from …
Heller’S Constitutional Dialogue: How The Supreme Court’S Choice Of Language In District Of Columbia V. Heller Is Instructive For Anticipating Future Interpretations Of The Second Amendment., Jason E. Niehaus
Jason E Niehaus
This article was an analysis of the language used by the Supreme Court in its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller to predict (ultimately correctly) the Court's later ruling regarding the Incorporation of the Second Amendment.