Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Upcoming Supreme Court case McDonald

The case McDonald v. City of Chicago presents to the Supreme Court the issue of whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms is applicable to state and local governments, or instead is only a right that Americans have against the actions of the federal government. Specifically, the question is whether the right to bear arms applies (or is "incorporated") to the states through either the Privileges or Immunities Clause or the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Bruce

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