The Right to Bear Arms

For years, I’ve taught students that the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporated” most provisions of the Bill of Rights–meaning that, although the BOR initially restrained only the federal government, after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court used a series of cases to apply most of those same restrictions to other levels of government.

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Insightful

Most of us who blog here at the AVA, or who visit the site, share a frustration with zealotry. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have often had difficulty explaining why my allegiance to certain constitutional principles is any different from–or preferable to–the beliefs that (to use an extreme example)led to the murder of Dr. George Tiller.

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