“The fourteenth amendment has not extended the rights and privileges of citizenship one iota. They are right where they always were.”
“[T]here is no need to deceive ourselves as to what the original Second Amendment said and meant. Of course, properly understood, it is no limitation upon arms control by the states.”–Antoin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1997) I wanted to take the opportunity today to add some late commentary over [...]
“[T]here is no need to deceive ourselves as to what the original Second Amendment said and meant. Of course, properly understood, it is no limitation upon arms control by the states.” –Antoin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1997) The recent Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller caught [...]