Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: "Paul Hager" <[h--ge--p] at [cs.indiana.edu]>
Subject: Sources (was Re: American Bar Association...)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 07:56:28 -0500


Several people have requested scholarly sources that were of use
to the ICLU commission.  Here are the main ones:

"The Embarrassing Second Amendment", Sanford Levinson, 99 Yale L.J.
637 (1989).  Levinson is a prof. at U. of Texas, a nationally recognized
scholar, and a long-time ACLU member.

Nicholas Johnson's analysis of RKBA viewed through the 9th Amendment
(don't have the exact cite at the moment) that appeared in the Fall
1992 Rutgers Law Journal.  Johnson is Liberal Democrat (don't know
if he's an ACLU member).

The Van Alstyne article that is in the April Duke Law Journal.  I have
a fax of the draft -- I haven't seen the final version.  Van Alstyne is
very well-respected in scholarly circles, is a long-time ACLU member,
d former national ACLU board member.  He has also been given the
highest ranking by the ABA for potential Supreme Court nominees (and
is reputed to be on the short list of Democratic SC candidates).

Another article that I highly recommend is by Cottrol and Diamond,
"The Second Amendment: Toward and Afro-Americanist Reconsideration",
80 Georgetown L.J. 309 (1991).

This is just a sampler.

I reiterate: modern constitutional scholarship is overwhelmingly in
support of the individual rights interpretation of the 2nd.  Why
the ABA would push a collective rights interpretation cannot be
based on scholarship and must therefore be purely political in
nature.
-- 
paul hager	[h--ge--p] at [moose.cs.indiana.edu]

	Hager for Congress, c/o Libertarian Party
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