Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment

Bertrall Ross;

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Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment

Bertrall Ross

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Harvard Law Review Forum

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2022-06-21

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Bertrall Ross

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What is the relationship between the Second Amendment right to bear arms and inequality? Scholarly silence suggests a conventional view that there is no relationship between the two. In this Essay, I argue that the Second Amendment is uniquely derived from the political inequality embedded in the American constitutional framework.

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Bertrall Ross, Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum, 491 (2022).

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