
The Second Amendment
What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
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The Second Amendment and Warren Burger
The second amendment didn't have a definitive answer about whose right it was and what was involved in that right, until two thousand and eight. That's when the supreme court decided that case, which you refer to called the hiller decision. Because they waited for such a long time, lower courts came to different conclusions about what the second amendment meant. Some courts decided that the second amendment protected only a collective right that was held by the states, only the states. The main special interest group, that's the an beginning in the 19 seventies, began to engage in a long and patient campaign to change main stream views,. politically and legally, about what theSecond Amendment meant.
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