The 2nd amendment a biography about michael
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Not very long ago, a book about the Second Amendment would have been what some people call a “thinnie,” destined for a narrow space on the shelf next to Bolivian Naval Heroes and (even less charitably) Eisenhower Speaks His Mind.
The 2nd amendment a biography about michael
That changed in 2008, when the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller found for the first time that the amendment provided individuals with a Constitutionally-protected right to own a gun. A full-size book about the Second Amendment, its origins, its apotheosis, and its future, was then much needed, and Michael Waldman has written it.
Waldman, a former director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton, is president of the Brennan Center, the liberal law and policy institute at New York University Law School.
While he calls his book a “biography,” and it follows a chronological approach, it ends not with a death, but with the Second Amendment stronger than it has ever been, at the