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A Return to States' Rights Model: Amending the Constitution's Most Controversial and Misunderstood Provision
Connecticut Law Review
  • Meg Penrose, Texas A&M University School of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2014
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.

Publisher
University of Connecticut School of Law
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Citation Information
Meg Penrose. "A Return to States' Rights Model: Amending the Constitution's Most Controversial and Misunderstood Provision" Connecticut Law Review Vol. 46 Iss. 4 (2014) p. 1463 - 1511
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/m_meg_penrose/53/