-----Original Message----- >From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 5, 2007 7:25 PM >To: Guy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: NYT: Liberal Con Law Scholars responsible for "individual right" >theory > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:55:49PM -0700, Guy Smith wrote: >> >> You have to love the New York Times for their ability to spin just about >> anything: > >Indeed. I notice the lack of mention of Don Kates' pioneering work.
Yup, it was Don's Mich L Rev article that led the liberal scholars to pick up on the issue. >> >> [2]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06firearms.html?_r=1&oref=slogin >> >> >> May 6, 2007 >> >> A Liberal Case for Gun Rights Helps Sway Judiciary >> >> By [3]ADAM LIPTAK > >> {GS: The one time I met Amar he impressed me as neither liberal >> nor conservative, just perfectly academic} > >I have not had the honor of meeting Prof. Amar, but I have read his >"The Bill of Rights". (Yale University Press, 1998). I agree that you >cannot classify him as either liberal or conservative (if either term >means anything anymore). I recommend it. > >> >> The Second Amendment says, "A well regulated militia, being >> necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the >> people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Some >> transcriptions of the amendment omit the last comma.) > >Nice of them to admit that the comma issue exists. I have a letter somewhere from the Library of Congress, essentially saying that the versions of the BoR sent to the states for ratification were lost when the British burned the Capitol, what we have is several state ratifications that were sent back (copies of which were retained by the states' archives) and some of those have one, and some three, commas, and variant capitalization. In an age with no photocopy machines, human transcribers tended to punctuate and capitalize as each felt best. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
