Assignment:
Constitutional Law
Topic Assignments
The following are all possible questions to answer within your assigned research paper.
Please choose one question to answer, and use both the assigned materials within the module and one additional scholarly resource to answer the question thoroughly.
1. In what ways was the National Rifle Association involved in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision District of Columbia v. Heller and the cases to follow?
2. What was the purpose behind the founding fathers including the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights and is that purpose still necessary today?
3. In what ways does federalism play a role in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions of Heller and McDonald?
4. Did the founders understand there to be an individual right to arms included in the Constitution? Why or why not?
5. Is the 2nd Amendment a civil right that is protected under the 14th Amendment? Why or why not?
6. In what ways did the U.S. Supreme Court in Heller overrule the Court's opinion in U.S. v. Miller and why is that reasoning important?