constitutional scholar

Constitutional Scholar

Some questions you will need to consider and address in your oral or written presentations:

What is the historical background of the second amendment?
How has the "right to bear arms" been interpreted?
How can the government protect individual and simultaneously the society as a whole?
How have states addressed the second amendment controversy?

Internet Resources:

Law Library
http://www.2ndLawLib.org/
Invaluable annotated links to scholarly articles on constitutional discussions of the second amendment.

The U.S. Constitutions Amendments
http://members.aol.com/tcnbp/USCons1.htm#Amendment2
A series of links to good sites on the Constitution and its various parts. Includes procedural information.

Actual Legislation
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Gov/brady.act
Full text of the Brady Bill

U.S. Government Home Page
http://www.thomas.loc.gov
Includes federal laws on gun control


Library Resources:

Bessett, Joseph M., ed. American Justice. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996.

Greene, Jack P., ed. Encyclopedia of American Political History. New York: Scribners, 1984.

Guide to Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1973.