2nd Amendment
Refuting the “Second Amendment Protected Slavery” Argument Part II: The Virginia Ratifying Convention
Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining a pro-slavery interpretation of the Second Amendment that persists to this day. You can read part 1 HERE. The Hidden History of the Second Amendment by law professor Carl T. Bogus argued that James...
Refuting the Claim that the Second Amendment was Intended to Protect Slavery
Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining a false “pro-slavery” interpretation of the Second Amendment that persists to this day. In efforts to undermine the Second Amendment, gun control advocates advance a variety of arguments claiming it...
Second Amendment: Revisiting the Original Congressional Debates
Second Amendment scholars and historians have almost completely skipped over a detailed analysis of the debates in the First Congress. What wasn’t discussed might be as important as what was. In his dissenting view in the Second Amendment case Heller v. District of...
2nd Amendment Obliterated? Federal Gun Control Already on the Books
If you’re like me, you’ve heard a lot of people talking lately about how the 2nd Amendment is under attack. And it sure is – in a pretty serious way. Unfortunately, however, a lot of these same people come across as if the attacks really just started in the last...