From: [d--ar--y] at [indirect.com] (David T. Hardy)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism,talk.politics.guns,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.constitution,az.politics
Subject: Prof. Amar on Second Amendment
Date: 1 Nov 1995 19:46:57 GMT

Akhil Amaar, Professor of Law at Yale, is considered one of the rising
lights of constitutional law, particularly in the 14th amendment
context. In his article "The Bill of Rights as a Constitition," 100
Yale Law Journal [not exactly Parade Magazine] at p. 1166 he notes of
the second amendment:

"The states' rights reading puts great weight on the word 'militia,'
but this word appears only in the amendment's subordinate clause. The
ultimate right to keep and bear arms belongs to 'the people,' not to
'the states.' As the language of the Tenth Amendment shows, these two
are of course not identical and when the Constitution means 'States' it
says so. Thus, as noted above, the 'people' at the core of the second
amendment are the same 'people' at the heart of the Preamble and the
First Amendment, namely citizens."

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