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“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” -The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

What do those 26 words mean exactly? In the landmark DC v. Heller decision in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to gun ownership but also held that this right is not unlimited. So how far do gun rights go, where do they come from as a matter of constitutional law, and what implications do gun rights have for civil liberties and public life?

Joining us to discuss this are Clark Neily (Vice President for Criminal Justice of the Cato Institute and one of the co-counsels who argued the Heller case before the Supreme Court) and Joseph Blocher, law professor at Duke University and author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller.

Co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Forum.
Sponsored by:
Political Science

Contact Organizer

Winslett, Gary O.
gwinslett@middlebury.edu
(802) 443-5310