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Which best describes your view of incorporation?

Would it be constitutional for a State like Vermont to pass a law which says that Citizens of Vermont can carry concealed weapons without a permit, but others must obtain a permit? Would they be failing to give citizens of other states the same immunities and privileges? Or is CCW an...

I've been reading about how Parker's lawyer Bob Levy, and Eugene Volokh, are construing the Second Amendment's term "free State" to regard the whole US as being a free State. Volokh has an article on the subject at http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/freestate.pdf . I sent him this response: "I...

Is the following declaration from Virginia's 1776 Bill of Rights regarding individual self-defense or collective self-defense?

I have come to understand that the word "rights" can refer to principles of free government. For instance, we might say that free government requires separate branches of government, and so that would be a "right". And we see this in the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, Section Five, which...

I am new here and think that, to get a feel for this forum, I will ask: How would you describe our intended form of government in the US?