A reasoned debate about the Second Amendment

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Adam Winkler of the UCLA School of Law and Nelson Lund of the George Mason University School of Law examine the history of the Second Amendment and the current debates about the extent of its protections.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:08.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution
0:14.6	on a nonpartisan basis.
0:17.0	And I am thrilled to share with our great listeners.
0:20.1	Our new interactive Constitution launched on Constitution Day and co-hosted by the Federalist Society and the American
0:27.6	Constitution Society, were asking the top scholars in America to write about every clause of the Constitution, describing what they agree
0:34.4	about and what they disagree about, so citizens can make up their own mind.
0:40.0	And today we're going to do a podcast version of one of the great explainers dealing with one of the most contested rights in the Bill of Rights, and that is the Second Amendment.
0:51.0	In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep a handgun in his or her home for self-defense.
1:00.0	Lower courts are now grappling with the meaning of those decisions and we have
1:05.4	assembled the two top scholars in America about the Second Amendment to discuss
1:10.5	what they agree about what they and what they disagree about.
1:13.4	Adam Winkler is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.
1:16.4	Nelson Lund is university professor at the George Mason University School of Law.
1:20.7	Adam Nelson, thank you so much for being here and thank you so much for joining our interactive constitution.
1:27.0	Happy to do it.
1:28.0	Thank you, Jeffrey.
1:30.0	Happy to be here.
1:31.0	Wonderful. So let's jump right in.
1:32.0	I want our listeners to check out your debate online
1:37.0	at constitution center.org, but Nelson let me begin with you. You and Adam had the assignment of coming up with 500 to 1,000 words
1:46.9	about what you agree about the Second Amendment's
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