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In Search of the Second Amendment

In Search of the Second Amendment is a documentary film on the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. It was produced and directed by American author and attorney David T. Hardy. He argues the individual rights model of the Second Amendment. Hardy also discusses the Fourteenth Amendment.

Outline of the documentary

How Did You Become Interested in the Second Amendment?
  • Legal Scholarship and the Second Amendment
England and the Militia
  • Duty to be Armed
1688: A Medieval Duty Becomes an "Antient and Indubitable Right"
1603–1768: Rights of Englishmen, Rights of Americans
1768–1775: The Right Is Challenged as Revolution Approaches
1776–1780: The First State Constitutions Give Different Models for a Right to Arms
1787–1789: A Proposal for a New Constitution Leads to Calls for a National Right to Arms
  • The Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights
  • State Ratification and Declaration of Rights Proposals
  • Virginia and the Demand for a Bill of Rights
  • The Compromise and James Madison
  • Drafting of the Right to Arms
  • The Militia and Standing Armies
1789: In the First Congress, James Madison Fulfils the Great Compromise
So What's the Debate? Tracing the Origin of the Belief that the 2nd Amendment Relates to a State's Right to have a National Guard
1868: The 14th Amendment Creates a New Guarantee of the Right to Arms: The Afro–American Experience
Civil Rights Movement
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Symposium on the Right to Arms
  • Meaning of "The People" Revisited
  • Dred Scott Revisited
  • A New View of Standing Armies and Militias
  • The Fourteenth Amendment Revisited
  • Republican and Democratic Party Platforms on the Right to Arms
  • Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1866 Revisited
  • 18th and 19th Century Interpretation of the Second Amendment
Governments, Genocides, and Utility of the Right
  • Armed Resistance and Genocide
  • Protection from Different Sources of Oppression
  • Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses and Crimes Committed
  • Guns and Number of Lives Saved vs. Lives Taken
  • Police and the Legal Duty to Protect the Public
  • Warren v. District of Columbia (1981)
  • View of Fellow Citizens
  • Effectiveness of Defensive Gun Use
  • Right of Self-defense and the Right to Arms
  • Protecting the Second Amendment and Other Rights
Final Scene
  • Closing Words
  • Credits
  • Dedications

Persons appearing in the documentary

Professors of law
Professors of criminology
Others

Notes

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