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A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas, William W. Van Alstyne Jul 2007

A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas, William W. Van Alstyne

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Prompted by the court’s decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, this series of correspondence discusses the effect possible forms of punctuation may have on the Second Amendment. The article makes comments on the important grammars during the founding and also two possible writings of the Second Amendment that contain different sets of punctuation.