Second Amendment United States

Von Schnitzler frowned in the dock as the defense lawyers tried to keep out of evidence all his statements, including his talks with Sprecher. The argument was that Von Schnitzler had been "disordered" since 1945, when circumstances had coerced him into testifying, in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The advocates leaped to their feet to deliver long-winded addresses in which the Fifth Amendment got mixed up with the First, Second, Third, and Fourth. When these grandilo-... 

Federal legislation for the postwar South led the Supreme Court to its first major confrontation with the Second Amendment. The case of United States V. Cruikshank (1876) arose from the trial of a band of white farmers (and probable KKK members) who had attacked and burned a courthouse... 

In United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, the Supreme Court notes in passing that the people has a consistent meaning of individuals when used in the Constitution, including the Second Amendment. 

Tonso, William R., ed., and the Second Amendment Foundation. The Gun Culture and Its Enemies. Bellevue, Wash. Merril Press, 1990. Presents two collections of essays. The first part deals with the gun culture that has developed around the use of guns in many parts of the United States. The second part deals with persons and groups that are determined to destroy, or at least marginalize, gun culture. 

Sprigman, Chris. This Is Not a Well-Regulated Militia. Open Forum, Winter 1994, n.p. Reviews Supreme Court cases and concludes that the Court has interpreted the Second Amendment as protecting state militias, not as an individual right to bear arms. Sprigman cites United States V. Miller (1939) and argues that the militia concept is probably not relevant to modern America. 

The Intent of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. Kentucky Coalition to Carry Concealed. Available online. URL http //www.kc3.com/editorial/quotes.htm. Posted on September 20, 1996. Quotes from the framers of the Constitution (and their contemporaries) on the right to keep and bear arms as an e.xposition of the historical intent of the Second Amendment. 

The United States appeals the district court s dismissal of the indictment of Defendant-Appellee Dr. Timothy Joe Emerson (Emerson) for violating 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8)(C)(ii). The district court held that section 922(g)(8)(C)(ii) was unconstitutional on its face under the Second Amendment and as applied... 

T]he people seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the Constitution is ordained and established by the People of the United States. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to the people. While this textual exegesis is by no means conclusive, it suggests that the people protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of people who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community. (citations omitted).. . ... 

Unlike the Tennessee constitution at issue in Aymette, the Second Amendment has no for their common defence language and the United States Constitution contains no provision comparable to section 28 of the Tennessee constitution on which the Aymette court relied. 

U.S. Congress. 1986. Superfund amendments and reauthorization act of 1986. Title III. Emergency planning and community right-to-know act. Ninety-ninth Congress of the United States of America. Second Sesstion. January 21, 1986. 

There are two classes of color additives, those that must be certified and those that are exempt from certification. Both are strictly controlled in the United States by regulatory statutes (Food Color Additives Amendments), but an official certificate is required for each commercial batch of color of the first group, while no such certificate is necessary for the second group. For certification the manufacturer must submit a sample of the batch to the Food Drug Administration for chemical analysis. The results of the analysis are compared with the specifications for certified colors published in the Code of Federal Regulations. If the compliance is complete, a certificate is issued for that particular batch of color. 

Environmental exposure to air pollutants is regulated in the United States under authority provided by the Clean Air Act (CAA). The CAA was passed in 1967 and amended in 1970, 1974, 1977, and 1990. A major impetus to federal regulation of air quality was general recognition that many air pollution issues were natural in scope and not just local issues. The CAA is a very comprehensive piece of legislation and a review of it in detail is well beyond the scope of this chapter. Alternatively, this chapter will focus on two key provisions of the CAA as amended in 1990 because they directly involve PM one relates to criteria pollutants and the second to hazardous air pollutants. 

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