Download This PaperIs There Anything ‘Fundamental’ in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? A Call for Parity in the Incorporation Doctrine
Engage, A Publication of the Federalist Society, 2008
7 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2010
Date Written: February 15, 2008
Abstract
This article published in 2008 discusses the incorporation of the Second Amendment following the Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision.
Keywords: Heller, incorporation, fourteenth amendment, privileges, immunities, due process, self-executing, bear arms, Bingham, Cruikshank, presser, Howard, Civil Rights Act, Slaughter-Houses Case, Stephen J. Field, 39th Congress
JEL Classification: K19
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Burrell, Thomas, Is There Anything ‘Fundamental’ in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? A Call for Parity in the Incorporation Doctrine (February 15, 2008). Engage, A Publication of the Federalist Society, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1582362
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