On December 15, 1791, Virginia ratified the Bill of Rights, making it, with the second amendment, part of the constitution (The Commission for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 5). The Constitution does not guarantee gun ownership for just any reason. The second amendment makes it clear that only a well regulated Militia needs arms...
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"As recently as 1980 the Supreme Court noted that 'The second amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear a firearm that does not have some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated Militia'"(Isaacson, 163). The meaning of the second amendment, as interpreted by pro-gun control supporters, was to enable citizens to protect themselves from and oppressive government, not to allow anyone the power to shoot another human being...
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Judicial Activism Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson, are also good examples of judicial restraint. The debate between judicial activism and judicial restraint began in the early days of the United States and still continues through the present...	1 / 275
How the Three Branches of American Government So, here we have the Legislative branch producing the fourteenth amendment, the Executive branch enforcing the fourteenth amendment, and the Judicial branch interpreting its meaning...	2 / 514
Judicial Activism Black children were now on equal footing with white children and could no longer be called less intelligent, as they would receive the same education...	4 / 1043
Majority Rules and Minority Rights The voting times are staggered as well to ensure the popular majorities are unlikely to overwhelm those who govern. Another way to protect minority rights and majority rules is the complicated amending process of the Constitution...	2 / 541