Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:10:29 GMT, Steve Krulick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>
>It is one aberrant and questionable "fifth-leg"! Look at
>how a REAL historian described the process,
>Pulitzer-Prize-winner Gary Wills
>(http://www.potomac-inc.org/garwills.html):
>
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel031601.shtml

Faith of Our Fathers
What the Second Amendment means.


Mr. Kopel, research director of the Independence Institute, & author
of 
The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century
March 16, 2001 9:35 a.m.

     Begin excerpt:
 
That someone as smart as Wills can make such preposterous arguments 
shows how desperate are the emotional needs, in some quarters, to make

the Second Amendment disappear by sheer will-power. Garry Wills
despises 
"the sordid race of gunsels" and "gun fetishists" whose mere ownership

of defensive firearms makes them "traitors, enemies of their own
patriae
." [Garry Wills, "Gun Rules...or Worldwide Gun Control?" Phil. Inq.,
May 
17, 1981, page 8E; Garry Wills, "John Lennon's War," Chi. Sun-Times, 
Dec. 12, 1980.] 

Wills' problem is he believes, as he wrote in 1981, "Every civilized 
society must disarm its citizens against each other" Unfortunately for

Wills, he lives in a nation whose Supreme Court has declared that the 
right to keep and bear arms "is found wherever civilization exists." [
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 551 (1876).]



>http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/FinkelmanChicago.htm

Finkleman 
      Uses:

 Himself:  Paul Finkelman, Antifederalists: The Loyal Opposition and
the American Constitution, 70 CORNELL L. REV. 182 (1984) 
     
Michael A. Bellesiles, Gun Laws In Early America: The Regulation of
Firearms Ownership, 1607-1794, 16 LAW & HIST. REV. 567, 587 (1998

 MICHAEL A. BELLESILES, ARMING AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF A NATIONAL GUN
CULTURE (2000).

Michael A. Bellesiles, The Origins of Gun Culture in the United
States, 1760-1865, 1996 J. Am. Hist. 425, 429


>
>http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/UvillerAndMerkelChicago.htm


    Another presenter at that circle jerk in Chigago sponsored by the
Joyce Foundation:

Uviller
      Uses:

Michael A. Bellesiles, Gun Laws in Early America: The Regulation of
Firearms Ownership, 1607-1794, 16 LAW & HIST. REV. 567, 572 (1998).

Robert J. Spitzer, Door No. 1: Muskets? Or Door No. 2: 
Free Speech?, CHRISTIAN SCI. MONITOR, Sept. 19, 1997, at 19

 Jack N. Rakove in The Origins of Judicial 
Review: A Plea for New Contexts, 49 STAN. L. REV. 1031, 1038, 1040-41,

1047-48, 1050 (1997).

Jack N. Rakove, The Original Intention of Original 
Understanding, 13 CONST. COMMENTARY 159 (1996).

Jack N. Rakove, The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage 
of Originalism, 76 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 103, 105, 144 (2000).     

LOIS G. SCHWOERER, "NO STANDING ARMIES!" THE ANTIARMY IDEOLOGY IN 
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND 10 (1974).

LOIS G. SCHWOERER, THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, 1689, 
at 289-90 (1981).

Carl T. Bogus, The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, 31 U.C. 
DAVIS L. REV. 309 (1998).

Carl T. Bogus, The History 
and Politics of Second Amendment Scholarship: A Primer, 76 CHI.-KENT
L. REV. 3, 19-21 (2000).