The "Embarrassing" Section 134

From: Brigham Young University Law Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Some years ago Sanford Levinson published an essay entitled, The Embarrassing Second Amendment.1 A well-known scholar of the left, Levinson regretfully concluded that the Framers understood the Second Amendment to protect precisely what the National Rifle Association has long maintained-an individual right to own weapons for the purpose of resisting violations of liberty by the federal government.2 This is "embarrassing" to gun-control liberals and others who argue that the Second Amendment protects a collective right that applies only in the context of state-controlled armed forces like the ...

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