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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (28904)7/9/2008 2:16:24 PM
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[David Kopel, July 9, 2008 at 1:02pm] Trackbacks
Collective Rights bleg:

Thanks to District of Columbia v. Heller, we now have unanimous agreement that the "collective rights" theory of the Second Amendment is incorrect. All nine Justices agreed that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right; the Justices simply disagreed about the scope of the individual right. Nothing in the dissent claims that there is now, or even has been, a scintilla of evidence from the Founding Era, or from Supreme Court precedent, in support of the "collective right."...

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