A Second Look at the Second Amendment
In an op-ed on the upcoming Supreme Court gun-control case, Larry Tribe writes that "a legislature's choice to limit the citizenry to rifles, shotguns and other weapons less likely to augment urban violence need not, and should not, be viewed as an unconstitutional abridgment of the right of the people to keep or bear arms."
ACS will host a panel discussion on District of Columbia v. Heller on March 13 in Washington, D.C., featuring Carl Bogus, Dave Kopel, John Payton, and moderator Dahlia Lithwick. (RSVP). Starting this Monday, ACSBlog will host an online discussion, led by Mark Tushnet and Adam Winkler, on the Second Amendment and Professor Tushnet's new book "Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle Over Guns."
Written By:Kyle Hammans On March 5, 2008 5:44 PM
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Lawrence Tribe? Harvard Law? Author of "The Invisible Constitution?" The way he and others treat the Constitution it certainly is invisible and essentially dead. Merely incorporated into the Code of Federal Regulations to be played around with un-Constituonal Congressional "Acts" and Executive Branch regulations. Apparently, the Federalist Papers and other writings by the Founding Fathers aren't good enough, as well as Blackstone's Law which the early Supreme Court used before they came up with the bogus ideas of precedent and a "living" Constitution. A "living" Constituion is a joke, because any interpretation will do, making the Constitution a dead document. Let's re-institute the original 13th amendment, get rid of everything after the anti-slavery amendment (what we know as the 14th & 15th were imposed by force and passed by dummy legislatures), and go forward from there. God help us!