2nd Amendment

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/4/2021
  

  Why are Medieval Weapons at the Center of a Supreme Court Case?

  by Jennifer Tucker

  The history and traditions of English law inform American judicial interpetation today, including efforts to discern the functional meaning of the Second Amendment. A group of historians has briefed the Court that restricting dangerous weapons in public is long-established. 

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• SOURCE: The Panorama
  6-4-18
  

  The Persistence of a Mythic Second Amendment in Contemporary Constitutional Culture

  by Saul Cornell

  The most prominent myth obscuring historical understanding of the Second Amendment relates to America’s frontier past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-24-18
  

  Law professor has a theory about the 2nd Amendment historians might want to consider

  by Carl T. Bogus

  The theory: The amendment was included in part to protect slavery

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• 12-11-15
  

  Justice Thomas Needs a Lesson in the History of the 2nd Amendment

  by Patrick J. Charles

  He also might want to reconsider Originalism. Oh, and the NRA once supported the position he now blasts as unconstitutional!