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Determinants Of Gun Violence In America, Rick Fuller

Undergraduate Research Symposium Podium Presentations

Gun violence is on the rise in America. 74.5% increase between 2014-2022. 55.2% increase in Gun Safety Legislation. Constitutional Carry adopted by 27 states. Suicide rates skew gun violence statistics.

Upholding Longstanding Prohibitions On Firearm Possession Under Bruen, Mitchell Gordon

SLU Law Journal Online

The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen has cast doubt on the constitutionality of federal firearms possession laws, such as the prohibition on felons possessing guns. This piece examines how one federal district court upheld a federal restriction on felon gun possession in the recent wake of the Bruen decision. In this article, Mitchell Gordon especially focuses on the historical facts and analysis that are now required under Bruen in order to uphold a governmental restriction on Second Amendment rights.

The Law Book: From Hammurabi To The International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones In The History Of Law (Sterling), Michael Roffer

Books

The Law Book explores 250 of the most significant legal issues, cases, trials, and events that have profoundly changed our world. Although the heaviest emphasis is on American law it also touches on more than a dozen countries and the European Union, laws relating to Antarctica and Outer Space, and principles of international law. Among the topics it explores are the earliest legal codes, the role of juries, slavery and emancipation, civil rights, Native Americans, copyright, the press and free speech, immigration, censorship and obscenity, the environment, war and international relations, war crimes and trials, the insanity defense, taxation, prohibition, …

The Constitution Of The United States At The End Of One Hundred Fifty Years, Hugh Evander Willis

Historic Documents

Including the original Constitution, the formal amendments, and that part of the Constitution made by the Supreme Court and custom, as found in the Supreme Court Reports, arranged so far as possible according to the analysis found in the original Constitution.

With an Introduction by Hugh Evander Willis

Indiana University Publications Social Science Series No.1 1939

A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union, Thomas M. Cooley, Victor H. Lane

Books

“At the request of the late Judge Cooley I have undertaken the preparation of this edition of the Constitutional Limitations. It seemed desirable, in view of all the circumstances, that the text of the last edition should stand as the text for this, and the work of the present editor has been confined to the bringing of the book down to date, by the addition of such matter to the notes as will fairly present the development of this branch of the law since the publication of the last edition.” --Preface to the Seventh Edition, Victor H. Lane, Ann Arbor, …

An Act To Organize, Govern, And Discipline The Militia Of The State Of Maine. Passed March 21, 1821. With The Several Acts In Addition Thereto, Passed Feb. 11, 1823, And Feb. 25, 1824. Published Under The Direction Of The Adjutant General, Maine. Adjutant General

Maine Collection

An Act to Organize, Govern, and Discipline the Militia of the State of Maine. Passed March 21, 1821. With the several acts in addition thereto, passed Feb. 11, 1823, and Feb. 25, 1824. Published under the direction of the Adjutant General.