Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations

Reynolds, Glenn  Harlan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1909617

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Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

University of Tennessee College of Law

August 14, 2011

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 162

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With the Second Amendment now a working part of the Bill Of Rights in the wake of the Supreme Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, this brief Essay examines the likely extent of penumbral rights under the Second Amendment, as well as the possible effect on unenumerated rights of an enforceable right to arms.

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Keywords: second amendment, right to arms, keep and bear arms, guns, firearms, penumbras, griswold

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Date posted: August 15, 2011 ; Last revised: November 10, 2011

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Reynolds, Glenn Harlan, Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations (August 14, 2011). University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 162. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1909617 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1909617

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