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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Second amendment"”.
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… States Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which shifted from a constitutional provision grounded in collective security and concerns about tyranny to a modern doctrine emphasizing an individual right to possess firearms. It contends that post-Heller (District of Columbia …
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The Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
… and contemporary judicial application of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The dissertation develops the argument that as originally understood, the Second Amendment protected a right to keep and bear arms closely linked to and dependent upon service in the lawfully …
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Masking the Second Amendment: Issue agenda building during the 2020 American presidential election
This study content analyzed interest group and candidate tweets from the 2020 American presidential election to determine what issues and substantive attributes were most salient on interest group and candidate agendas during the "hot phase" of the campaign. Cross-lagged correlations were conducted …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
Interpretations of the Second Amendment's original meaning encompass two extremes: an "individual rights" interpretation which argues that it protects each person's right to own and use weapons for any non-criminal purpose; and a "collective rights" interpretation which asserts that it protects …
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The History of Gun Control in the United States
… right given to American citizens by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Advocates for gun control argue that firearms lead to more deaths, and should be restricted to avoid shooting tragedies. Regardless of one’s personal stance on this issue, it is undeniable that gun control is …
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An Examination of Media Accounts Before and After School Shootings: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Articles Pertaining to Firearms on Campus
… elicit such polarizing responses as that of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Since our country's infancy, firearms have been an integral part of our society. Over the years firearms have undoubtedly become ingrained in the American culture, but their presence has not been …
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Policing and firearms: exploring data collection practices and attitudes toward gun control
… violence, and d) less likely to interpret the Second Amendment to mean an Individuals' right to bear arms. Using both bivariate and multivariate analysis, three of five hypotheses were confirmed when variables such as age, gender, and firearm ownership were controlled for. The findings …
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Armed to learn: aiming at California K-12 school gun policy
… who believe as strongly in the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Whether or not to implement a weapons policy is an issue every school superintendent or school authority may need to face sooner or later. This research does not seek to answer the question of whether school …
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Investigation into the success and failures of Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) as a service delivery tool in Makhado Local Municipality
… in the Local Government Transition Act: Second Amendment Act, 97 of 1996, their conceptualization at a policy level was very limited. Thus, the requirements for IDP overlap to some extent with the planning requirements of the Land Development Objectives (LDOs) as established by the …
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An Investigation Of The Unintended Consequences Of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law And Leadership’s Role In Both Implementing The Law And Revising It
<p>The State of Florida has become a negative representation of the Stand Your Ground Law due to the three unintended consequences which developed since that law was passed in 2005. They are the disparity of African American incarceration rates when the law is applied, the increase in justifiable …
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Development of a process model for the design stage of building projects
… the user interface have been updated. The first amendment on the theoretical framework concerned the roles of the parties. Apart from the major party for the activities, the participants who should provide support are identified in the framework. The second amendment related to the activities. …
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Dissenting opinion hakim dalam perkara itsbat nikah no 0314/Pdt.G/2011/P.A.Lmj di Pengadilan Agama Lumajang
… yang sah. ENGLISH: In Act No. 50 of 2009 on the second amendment of Law No. 7 of 1989 on the absolute authority of the Religious Religious Court, among others, is to receive, examine, try and resolve the matter itsbat marriage for couples who do not have a marriage certificate. in the case of …