Levinson, Sanford

Sanford Levinson. The Embarrassing Second Amendment. Yale Law Journal 99 (1989), p. 637-659. 

Sanford Levinson, McCormick Professor at the University of Texas. Although he remains generally politically liberal, Levinson s studies of the Second Amendment led him to the conclusion that it did protect an individual right to keep and bear arms and that it should be taken seriously by constitutional scholars. His 1989 paper The Embarrassing Second Amendment helped touch off a renewed debate about the amendment s meaning and the suggestion that it should be, like the First and Fourth Amendments, incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment and applied to the states. 

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