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Text, History, And Tradition: What The Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About The Second, Darrell A. H. Miller
Text, History, And Tradition: What The Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About The Second, Darrell A. H. Miller
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In District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court made seemingly irreconcilable demands on lower courts: evaluate Second Amendment claims through history, avoid balancing, and retain as much regulation as possible. To date, lower courts have been unable to devise a test that satisfies all three of these conditions. Worse, the emerging default candidate, intermediate scrutiny, is a test that many jurists and scholars consider exceedingly manipulable.
This Article argues that courts could look to the Supreme Court’s Seventh Amendment jurisprudence, and in particular the Seventh Amendment’s “historical test,” to help them devise a …
Twelve-Person Federal Civil Jury In Exile, Thomas D. Rowe Jr.
Twelve-Person Federal Civil Jury In Exile, Thomas D. Rowe Jr.
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