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Showing posts with label right to bear arms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label right to bear arms. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Edwin Vieira May Have a Point

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Edwin Vieira's point about the absence of state- and local-based militias in America has made me think about the Second Amendment. I...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

NRA Files Brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago

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I just received the following e-mail from the National Rifle Association. The NRA "asks the US to apply the Second Amendment to state ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Aristotle and the Second Amendment II

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"...when citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name--a constitution. ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Aristotle on the Right to Bear Arms

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In Book II, chapter 8 of Politics Aristotle describes the city of Hippodamus, the son of Euryphon. Aristotle credits Hippodamus with the in...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

The '49rs Didn't Need Gun Control

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Among my favorite westerns are the ones about the gold miners in California, the '49ers. There was no law in California in 1848-50 and t...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Alexander Hamilton on the Second Amendment

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Hamilton's Federalist No. 29 is about the issue of regulating militias. On the one hand, it was necessary to form a "well regulated...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Federalist Number 8 and the Second Amendment

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The Federalist No. 8, attributed to Hamilton, sheds some light on the Second Amendment debate. As many have pointed out, the Second Amendmen...