A virtual consensus of constitutional historians and legal scholars today--including not only conservatives, but also such left-liberals as Harvard Law`s Laurence Tribe and libertarians, such as Boston University Law`s Randy Barnett--agree that the individual-rights view, not the states`-rights view, is the correct interpretation of the Second Amendment. " The aberration is not the Bush Justice Department but rather the U.S. Supreme Court, which in its 1939 decision in U.S. v. Miller held that the Second Amendment right extends only to arms that are related to the militia," writes David N. Mayer, professor of law and history at Capital University Law School.
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