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  • Natural Law or the Legislature, but not the Second Amendment

    Douglas W. Kmiec Professor Posner is right that -- by originalist lights -- the argument for gun rights belongs in the legislature, not the Court.  Nothing said in the Heller oral argument persuasively demonstrated that the Second Amendment as originally understood protects an individual right of self-defense.  The Court may decide to ...
    Posted to Convictions (Weblog) by Doug Kmiec on March 19, 2008