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Submitted by simbsi on April 30, 2006
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Introduction
According to the Second Amendment of United States Constitution "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Fourteenth Amendment provides: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Synopsis
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It is sad to know that the highlighted parts of the amendment have been continuously ravaged by the US Supreme Court for several decades. The US Supreme court has had its own interpretations of the second amendment. There have been several landmark cases which have highlighted the interpretations of the Supreme Court.
According to Clayton Cramer’s report “the racist roots of gun control” a lot of gun control laws were due to historical injustices. Despite publishing this report crayer hasn’t seen much progress either in court or in the eyes of the public. People feel that the state gun control laws were introduced due to racist intentions. This can be attributed to an example below.
The first case of second amendment interpretation in the Supreme Court was the United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542 (1876). The Supreme Court declared that the right for people to keep arms with them existed prior to the US constitution. Furthermore they believed that such a right was not granted by the constitution and nor could that right be dependent on the...
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