It is definitively not my intention to wade into such debates about the wisdom of the Second Amendment or to deal with pending or recent court interpretations. Rather, I want to explore how it came to be and what role British history had in its genesis. For Americans like myself, such history helps us to understand the meaning of our own Constitution. For the Britons, it is a powerful example of how your own constitutional principles shaped the legal landscape of far-flung countries once within the British Empire. And for those simply interested in law as a discipline, irrespective of geography, I hope this serves as a useful case study of how distant history can help contemporary lawyers interpret the meaning of a legal text adopted over 2...
The lingering question following the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision in District of Columbia v. Hel...
This Article analyzes the arguments Individual Rights Scholars have made concerning the right to hav...
in the article the author describes activities of State Courts in the 19th century on the admissibil...
It is definitively not my intention to wade into such debates about the wisdom of the Second Amendme...
This Article discusses the English background to the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni...
Does the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provide for an individual or collective right to ...
Over two hundred years after James Madison wrote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ther...
Most discussions of the right to bear arms-however superficial-begin by noting the specific language...
This paper develops a robust model of how nineteenth-century courts actually adjudicated the content...
The Founders of our republic did not think an armed citizenry was the product of a childish infatuat...
A Review of To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcol
This article first recontextualizes the Second Amendment debate by examining the two main interpreta...
This article disagrees that the courts need to reinvent or recast the Second Amendment outside the h...
In Gun Ownership in Early America, published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2003,\u27 Robert...
The life of the American colonist is often remembered as a gun-toting pilgrim in a brave new world. ...
The lingering question following the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision in District of Columbia v. Hel...
This Article analyzes the arguments Individual Rights Scholars have made concerning the right to hav...
in the article the author describes activities of State Courts in the 19th century on the admissibil...
It is definitively not my intention to wade into such debates about the wisdom of the Second Amendme...
This Article discusses the English background to the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni...
Does the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provide for an individual or collective right to ...
Over two hundred years after James Madison wrote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ther...
Most discussions of the right to bear arms-however superficial-begin by noting the specific language...
This paper develops a robust model of how nineteenth-century courts actually adjudicated the content...
The Founders of our republic did not think an armed citizenry was the product of a childish infatuat...
A Review of To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcol
This article first recontextualizes the Second Amendment debate by examining the two main interpreta...
This article disagrees that the courts need to reinvent or recast the Second Amendment outside the h...
In Gun Ownership in Early America, published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2003,\u27 Robert...
The life of the American colonist is often remembered as a gun-toting pilgrim in a brave new world. ...
The lingering question following the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision in District of Columbia v. Hel...
This Article analyzes the arguments Individual Rights Scholars have made concerning the right to hav...
in the article the author describes activities of State Courts in the 19th century on the admissibil...
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