Published academic scholarship on the Second Amendment
Last updated: August 14, 1999
Yale L.J. 1131, 1162-1175 (1991). [PDF] 57k
, The Bill of Rights as a Constitution, 100Harv. J. of L. & Pub. Pol'y 403-410 (1996). [PDF] 27k
, The Relevance of the Framers' Intent, 19Emory L.J. 1140-1259 (1996). [PDF] 467k
, Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment, 45L. & Contemp. Probs. 163-198 (1986). [PDF] 177k
, Strict Construction of Firearms Offenses: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act of 1968, 49Yale L. & Pol. Rev. 509-560 (1993). [PDF] 221k
, Do Battered Women Have a Right to Bear Arms?, 11Texas L. Rev. 1125-1151 (1996). [PDF] 115k
, Toward a Functional Framework for Interpreting the Second Amendment, 74Wis. B. Bull. 21-26 (Oct. 1980). [PDF] 38k
, The Right to Bear Arms: A Reply, 53Det. L. Rev. 789-823 (1982). [PDF] 132k
, The Right of the Individual to Bear Arms: A Recent Judicial Trend, 4Fordham L.J. 31-53 (1976). [PDF] 87k
, Restoring the Balance: The Second Amendment Revisited, 5Yale L.J. 995-1026 (1995). [PDF] 142k
, The Fifth Auxiliary Right, 104Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1307-1335 (1995). [PDF] 134k
, "Never Intended to be Applied to the White Population": Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity--The Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence?, 70Georgetown L.J. 309-361 (1991). [PDF] 244k
, The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80Kansas J. of L. & Pub. Pol. 17-25 (1995). [HTML]
, The Racist Roots of Gun Control, 4Tenn. L. Rev. 679-757 (1994). [HTML]
, "Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws, 62So. Ill. U. L.J. 227-253 (1997). [PDF] 105k
, Professional Discourse, The Second Amendment and the "Talking Head Constitutionalism" Counterrevolution: A Review Essay, 21Okla. City U. L. Rev. 191-245 (1996). [PDF] 178k
, Palladium of Liberty? Causes and Consequences of the Federalization of State Militias in the Twentieth Century, 21Cumb. L. Rev. 961-1004 (1996). [PDF] 163k
, Can the Simple Cite be Trusted?: Lower Court Interpretations of United States v. Miller and the Second Amendment, 26Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 185-214 (1996). [PDF] 123k
, It Takes a Militia: A Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms Bearing, 5Akron L. Rev. 1-92 (1995). [PDF] 148k
, Clearing the Smoke From the Right to Bear Arms and the Second Amendment, 29Central L. J. 259-261, 273-275, 285-287, 295-296 (1874). [PDF] 50k
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms for Private and Public Defence, 1Touro Law Review 123-142 (1995). [HTML]
, "Use" and the Irresistible Impulse to Legislate, 12Stanford L. & Pol. Rev. 25-40 (1997). [PDF] 109k
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots, 8St. Thomas L. Rev. 203-214 (1992). [PDF] 52k
, Bearing Arms in State Bills of Rights, Judicial Interpretation, and Public Housing, 5U. Dayton L. Rev. 1-89 (1989). [PDF] 134k
, Federal and State Constitutional Guarantees to Arms, 15Oklahoma L. Rev. 65-105 (1983). [PDF] 167k
, The Right to Arms: Does the Constitution or the Predilection of Judges Reign?, 36Okla. City U. L. Rev. 177-241 (1982). [PDF] 237k
, State Constitutions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 7U. Dayton L. Rev. 5 (1989). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment in the Twentieth Century: Have You Seen Your Militia Lately?, 15Harv. L. Rev. 473-477 (1915). [PDF] 13k
, The Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 28PDF] 93k
, The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Guarantees an Individual Right To Keep and Bear Arms, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 83-109 (Comm. print 1982). [N.W. U. J. of Crim. L. & Crim. 764-806 (1995). [PDF] 184k
, Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-in-Point, 85Howard L.J. 411-436 (1995). [PDF]
, Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle? Tracing the Historical "Origins of an Anglo-American Right", 39N. Ky. L. Rev. 63-96 (1982). [PDF] 126k
, To Preserve Liberty--A Look at the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 10N. Ky. L. Rev. 113-140 (1982). [PDF] 91k
, Gun Ownership: A Constitutional Right, 10GMU Civ. Rts. L.J. 105-178 (1995). [PDF] 235k
, Second Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia, 5Seton Hall Const. L.J. 341-434 (1995). [PDF] 293k
, Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and "The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms": Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, 5Tenn. L. Rev. 597-641 (1995). [PDF] 170k
, Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 62Val. U. L.Rev. 131-207 (1991). [PDF] 257k
, The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment, 26Baylor L. Rev. 629-688 (1989). [PDF] 218k
, The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bill of Rights, 41U. Dayton L. Rev. 91-124 (1989). [PDF] 121k
, Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment, 15Law & Contemp. Probs. 151-162 (1986). [PDF] 57k
, What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to "Bear Arms", 49Vt. L. Rev. 255-320 (1985). [PDF] 225k
, The Right to Bear Arms in the First State Bills of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts, 49PDF] 62k
, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 68-82 (Comm. print 1982). [N. Ky. L. Rev. 13-39 (1982). [PDF] 96k
, To Keep and Bear Their Private Arms: The Adoption of the Second Amendment, 1787-1791, 10GMU L. Rev. 1-69 (1981). [PDF] 250k
, The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, 4J. of Law & Pol. 1-62 (1987). [PDF] 214k
, The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights, 4Cumb. L. Rev. 585-682 (1987). [PDF] 380k
, The Firearms Owners' Protection Act: A Historical and Legal Perspective, 17Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 559-638 (1986). [PDF] 287k
, Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Second Amendment, 9PDF] 88k
, Historical Bases of the Right To Keep and Bear Arms, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 45-67 (Comm. print 1982). [Val. U. L. Rev. 107 (1991). [HTML]
, Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment, 26Rutgers L. Rev. 97-197 (1997). [PDF] 329k
, Principles and Passions: The Intersection of Abortion and Gun Rights, 50Rutgers L.J. 1-81 (1992). [PDF] 281k
, Beyond the Second Amendment: An Individual Right to Arms Viewed Through the Ninth Amendment, 24J. Contemp. L. 353-379 (1994). [PDF] 100k
, Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism, 20Const. Comm. 87-104 (1992). [PDF] 60k
, The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection, 9Pub. Interest L. Rev. 31-46 (1992). [PDF] 45k
, Bigotry, Symbolism and Ideology in the Battle over Gun Control,Am. J. of Crim. Law 113-167 (1991). [PDF] 225k
, The Value of Civilian Handgun Possession as a Deterrent to Crime or a Defense Against Crime, 18L. & Contemp. Probs. 143-150 (1986). [PDF] 37k
, The Second Amendment: A Dialogue, 49Mich. L. Rev. 204-273 (1983). [PDF] 308k
, Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, 82Tenn. L. Rev. 513-596 (1994). [PDF] 364k
, Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?, 62Mich. L. Rev. 1335-1362 (1995). [PDF] 124k
, It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins of the Right to Arms, 93Qtl'y J. of Ideology 3-34 (1995). [PDF] 76k
, The Ideology of Gun Ownership and Gun Control in the United States, 18N.Y. L. Sch. J. of Int. & Comp. L. 355-398 (1995). [PDF] 145k
, Lethal Laws, 15J. of Contemp. L. 381-417 (1994). [PDF] 125k
, Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition, 20St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 285-359 (1993). [HTML]
, Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition, 12Asia Pac. L. Rev 26-52 (1993). [PDF] 90k
, Japanese Gun Control, 12Temple Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1-50 (1991). [PDF] 228k
, Canadian Gun Control: Should the United States Look North for a Solution to its Firearms Problem?, 5Temple L. Rev. 1177-1240 (1995). [PDF] 288k
, A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts, 68Seton Hall Legis. J. 737-775 (1995). [PDF] 134k
, The Sullivan Principles: Protecting the Second Amendment from Civil Abuse, 56Maryland L. Rev. 438-554 (1997). [PDF] 476k
, Communitarians, Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the Case for Firearms Prohibition, 56Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 148-167 (1971). [PDF] 65k
, The Right to Bear Arms: The Development of the American Experience, 48Yale L.J. 637-659 (1989). [PDF] 94k
, The Embarrassing Second Amendment, 99U. Chi. J. of L. Stud. -- (1997). [PDF]
, Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns, 26Ga. L. Rev. 1-76 (1996). [PDF] 253k
, The Past and Future of the Individual's Right to Arms, 31Ala. L. Rev. 103-130 (1987). [PDF] 96k
, The Second Amendment, Political Liberty, and the Right to Self-Preservation, 39Hastings Const. L.Q. 285-314 (1983). [PDF] 113k
, The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition, 10Lincoln L. Rev. 1-25 (1990). [PDF] 85k
, Who is the Militia--The Virginia Ratification Convention and the Right to Bear Arms, 19Wash. U. L.Q. 1237- (1997). [HTML]
, Of Holocausts and Gun Control, 75Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1311-1403 (1997). [PDF] 331k
, Guns, Words, and Constitutional Interpretation, 38Cap. U. L. Rev. 641-692 (1993). [PDF] 194k
, Is There a Neutral Justification for Refusing to Implement the Second Amendment or is the Supreme Court Just "Gun Shy"?, 22Tenn. L. Rev. 461-512 (1995). [PDF] 210k
, A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 62Tenn. L. Rev. 647-673 (1994). [PDF] 105k
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Tennessee Constitution: A Case Study in Civic Republican Thought, 61Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1737-1768 (1995). [PDF] 108k
, The Second Amendment and States' Rights: A Thought Experiment, 36L. & Contemp. Probs. 125-141 (1986). [PDF] 71k
, The Armed Citizen in the Early Republic, 49J. of Am. Hist. 599-614 (1982). [PDF] 61k
, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, 69Fla. St. U. L. Rev. -- (1995). [HTML]
, In Search of the Lost Amendment: Challenging Federal Firearms Regulation Through the State's Right Interpretation of the Second Amendment, 23A.B.A. J. 554-557 (June 1965). [PDF] 30k
, The Lost Amendment, 51A.B.A. J. 665-669 (July 1965). [PDF] 35k
, The Lost Amendment, 51 PDF]
Committee Print I-IX, 1-175 (1982).
Duke L.J. 1236-1255 (1994). [PDF] 69k
, The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, 43Val. L. Rev. 1007-1039 (1994). [PDF] 127k
, The History of the Second Amendment, 28NYU L. Rev. 793- (1998). [HTML]
, The Commonplace Second Amendment, 73NYU L. Rev. 831- (1998). [HTML]
, The Amazing Vanishing Second Amendment, 73J. of L. Ed. -- (forthcoming 1998). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, 73Hastings Const. L.Q. 961-1001 (1975). [PDF] 133k
, Standing Armies And Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of The Second Amendment, 2J. of Urb. Law 557-589 (1974). [PDF] 42k
, A Reply to Advocates of Gun-Control Law, 52N.Y.U. L. Rev. 822-830 (1998). [PDF] 33k
, The Unitary Second Amendment, 73Cornell L. Rev. 879-952 (1996). [PDF] 287k
, The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People, 81Yale L.J. 551-615 (1991).[PDF]
, Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment, 101
98. - Does the Second Amendment mean what it says?, 24-26. [PDF] 10k
,99. - Beard, Michael K. & Fields, Samuel S., National Coalition to Ban Handguns, statement on the Second Amendment, 27-44. [PDF] 30k
100. - Featherstone, James J. & Gardiner, Richard E. & Dowlut, Robert, The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Guarantees an Individual Right To Keep and Bear Arms, 83-109. [PDF] 92k
101. - Weatherup, Roy G., An Historical Analysis of The Second Amendment, 130-170 (reprinted from 2 Hastings Const. L.Q. 961-1001 (1975)). [PDF] 132k
102. - Committee on Federal Legislation (N.Y. City Bar Assoc.), Gun Control Legislation, 171-175. [PDF] 17k
103. - Amar, Akhil R., Second Thoughts: What the right to bear arms really means, The New Republic ___ (July 12, 1999). [HTML]
104. - Cottrol, Robert J., A Liberal Democrat's Lament: Gun Control is Racist, Sexist and Classist, The American Enterprise ___ (Sept./Oct. 1999). [HTML]
105. - Dowlut, Robert, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in State Bills of Rights and Judicial Interpretation, 5 J. on Firearms & Pub. Pol'y. 153-163 (1993). [PDF] 30k
106. - Funk, Markus T., Straight Shooters, Reason (Aug./Sept. 1997). [HTML]
107. - _____, A New Way to Control Crime? 'Saturday Night Specials' Bans Haven't Worked, Investor's Business Daily Feb. 6, 1996 at A1 (Charles Oliver quoting Funk). [HTML] 11k
108. - _____, Control the Guns or the Criminals?, Wash. Times (Jul. 6, 1995) at A16 (Walter Williams quoting Funk). [HTML] 5k
109. - _____, Are Gun Control Laws Discriminatory?, 3 Might Magazine (1994) at 59-60. [PDF] 15k
110. - Gallant, Paul & Kopel, David B., The "Psychic Cost" of Holiday Gift-Giving, Independence Institute, OpEd (Dec. 1997). [HTML]
111. - _____, Of guns, automobiles, and summer vacations, Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. (Aug. 1998). HTML]
112. - Halbrook, Stephen P., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments: The Framers' Intent and Supreme Court Jurisprudence, 5 J. on Firearms & Pub. Pol'y. 7-28 (1993). [PDF] 63k
113. - Heller, Scott, The Right to Bear Arms: Some prominent scholars are taking a new look at the Second Amendment, Chronicle of Higher Ed. (July 1995). [PDF] 14k
114. - Kates, Don B., Jr., Making a Case for Gun Ownership: Israeli-US Contrasts, The Christian Science Monitor (Aug. 17, 1997). [HTML]13K
115. - _____, Guns, Murders and the Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control, Pacific Research Foundation i-iv, 1-64 (Feb. 1990). [PDF] 257k
116. - _____, Schaffer, Henry E., Waters, William B., IV, Public Health Pot Shots: How the CDC succumbed to the Gun "Epidemic", Reason (Apr. 1997). [HTML]
117. - Kopel, David B., How Strict are U.S., Colorado, and Local Gun Control Laws?, Independence Institute, Issue Paper (Aug. 20, 1999). [HTML]
118. - _____, The Militias Are Coming, Reason 57 (Aug./Sept. 1996). [HTML]
119. - _____, Guns, Germs, and Science: Public Health Approaches to Gun Control, Independence Institute, Issue Paper (Oct. 1994). [HTML]
120. - Little, Chris & Kopel, David B., Gun Prohibitionists Miss their Mark, Independence Institute, Op-Ed (Aug. 1997). [HTML]
121. - Lott, John R., License to Kill?: Careful look at critical study actually backs gun permit holders, Dallas Morning News (Feb. 8, 1998) at 6J. [HTML]
122. - Malcolm, Joyce Lee, The Role of the Militia in the Development of the Englishman's Right to be Armed: Clarifying the Legacy, 5 J. on Firearms & Pub. Pol'y. 139-151 (1993). [PDF] 35k
123. - Morgan, Richard E., Distrust of Government from the Edges -- Militias, Hate Groups, etc: What should be the prudent response?, 3 The Sovereign Citizen (1996): Nichols College, Symposium (Nov. 15, 1995). [HTML]
124. - Polsby, Daniel D., The Closed American Mind; From the Hip, National Review (Mar. 24, 1997). [HTML]
125. - _____, Second Reading: Treating the Second Amendment as normal constitutional law, Reason (Mar. 1996). [HTML]
126. - Reynolds, Glenn H., The Minuteman: Restoring an Army of the People, Reason (May 1999). [HTML]
127. - Tonso, William R., Shooting Blind -- Press Coverage of the "assault weapon" controversy suggests that most jounalists know very little about guns and are not interested in learning, Reason (Nov. 1995). [HTML]
128. - _____, Big Brother and the Second Amendment, Indepenence Institute, Op-Ed (Oct. 1 1993). [HTML]
129. - _____, Gun Control: White Man's Law, 17 Reason 22 (Dec. 1985). [PDF] 18k
130. - Wright, James D., Guns and Sputter, Reason (July 1989). [PDF] 12k
131. - Jury Nullification: THE TOP SECRET CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. [PDF] 10k
132. - Fletcher of Saltoun, Selected writings [HTML] 15k
133. - Second thoughts on the Second Amendment. [HTML] 12k
134. - Can Soldiers be Peace Officers - A hard look at the Military. [PDF] 10k
135. - The Unwarrented Warrent: The WACO Search Warrant. [HTML] 12k
136. - Preventing A Reign Of Terror: Or is it creating more Terror. [HTML] 14k
137. - FIGHTING BACK: Crime, Self-Defense, and The Right To Carry a Handgun. [HTML] 15k
138. - Your Right Of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest. [HTML] 14k