| What Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment? |
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
10:00 AM
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
12:00 PM
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Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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| The Second Amendment reads: "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." Did the framers contemplate an individual right to bear arms or one predicated on the need for local militias? Recently, the Department of Justice changed its policy statement on the Second Amendment from one that saw the right to bear arms as a collective right to an individual one. What forms of regulation do these two interpretations allow? What did the framers intend? What have subsequent cases, policies, and practices meant for the interpretation of the Second Amendment? Please join us as four distinguished constitutional scholars debate the answers to these questions. |
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| 9:45 a.m. |
Registration |
| 10:00 |
Panelists: |
Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University |
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Robert J. Cottrol, George Washington University |
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Robert A. Goldwin, AEI |
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Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas |
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John C. Fortier, AEI |
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More Information
Carrie Rieger
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
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Fax: 202-862-7177
E-mail: CRieger@aei.org
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Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
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Washington, DC 20036
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E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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