Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2014
Journal Title
Connecticut Law Review
ISSN
0010-6151
Abstract
This Article seeks to return to the intent of the Symposium, which was to stimulate a meaningful dialogue on the modern Second Amendment. More specifically, it proposes a return to the states' rights model that predated the Supreme Court's narrow decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago by using the Article V process set forth directly in the Constitution to address modern concerns about firearms. The proposal flows from a healthy skepticism about the role of the federal government in interpreting gun regulations, as well as a desire to avoid the inevitable follow-up decisions from a very fractured and often unpredictable Supreme Court.
First Page
1463
Last Page
1511
Volume Number
46
Issue Number
4
Publisher
University of Connecticut School of Law
Recommended Citation
Meg Penrose,
A Return to States' Rights Model: Amending the Constitution's Most Controversial and Misunderstood Provision,
46
Conn. L. Rev.
1463
(2014).
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