Author Question: What are the historical roots of the right to bear arms? What will be an ideal ... (Read 59 times)

a0266361136 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

What are the historical roots of the right to bear arms?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain the evolution of the selective incorporation doctrine.

What will be an ideal response?

yuyiding · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Discuss the colonists' attitudes toward personal weapons.
2. Describe subsequent developments in interpreting the right, including U.S. v. Miller and D.C. v. Heller.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Define selective incorporation.
2. Discuss how the Supreme Court has used the Fourteenth Amendment to gradually ensure that the states comply with the Bill of Rights.
3. Discuss how various court cases have incorporated different provisions of the Bill of Rights.