The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia
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The Second Amendment and Racism
Andan: The second amendment was really born out of the fear of black people. So a big part of your gument is that racism was inherent to the very purpose of the second amendment. That's at odds with what at least some scholars have said about the amendment. Akilamar at yale, for example, has argued that the primary purpose of theSecondAmendment was a kind of preservation of local control. There would be local militias that could serve as a check against the federal government and specifically against a stand in army. And so it is the saliency of of o slavery, the saliencyof white fear of blackPeople, that is, to me, central to second
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