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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 01:59 PM
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111.  Do you believe a Justice of SCOTUS would make a statement like that
Edited on Mon Sep-22-03 02:01 PM by jody
if SCOTUS had already made a definitive decision? Do you have a comprehension problem?

Do you think Laurence Tribe is also wrong?

New view on arms rights angers liberals

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WASHINGTON - Publication of the first volume of a revised edition of a legal treatise would not ordinarily make news.

But even before it began arriving at law schools last week, Laurence Tribe's 'American Constitutional Law' was causing a stir.

Tribe , a Harvard law professor who is probably the most influential living American constitutional scholar, says he has already gotten hate mail about his new interpretation of the right to bear arms contained in the Second Amendment.

Relegated to a footnote in the first edition of the book in 1978, the right to bear arms earns Tribe's respect in the latest version.

Tribe , well-known as a liberal scholar, concludes that the right to bear arms was conceived as an important political right that should not be dismissed as ''wholly irrelevant.' ' Rather, Tribe thinks the Second Amendment assures that ''the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.' '

Tribe posits that it includes an individual right, ''admittedly of uncertain scope,' ' to ''possess and use firearms in the defense of themselves and their homes.' '
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If you igonore Tribe who sides with Thomas, then your problem could be much more serious than comprehension.
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