In Search of the Second Amendment

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In Search of the Second Amendment

DVD cover of
In Search of the Second Amendment
Directed by David T. Hardy
Produced by David T. Hardy
Written by David T. Hardy
Narrated by David T. Hardy
Starring David T. Hardy
Various professors
and scholars
Music by Jason "Prophecy" Miller
of Prophetik Music
Cinematography David T. Hardy
Editing by David T. Hardy
Distributed by Second Amendment
Films LLC (DVD)
Release date(s) December 19, 2006
Running time 111 mins
Country United States
Language English
Budget US$45,000
Official website

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.

Contents

[edit] Outline of the documentary

[edit] How Did You Become Interested in the Second Amendment?

  • Legal Scholarship and the Second Amendment

[edit] England and the Militia

  • Duty to be Armed

[edit] 1688: A Medieval Duty Becomes an "Antient[1] and Indubitable Right"

[edit] 1603–1768: Rights of Englishmen, Rights of Americans

[edit] 1768–1775: The Right Is Challenged as Revolution Approaches

[edit] 1776–1780: The First State Constitutions Give Different Models for a Right to Arms

[edit] 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

[edit] 1789: In the First Congress, James Madison Fulfils the Great Compromise

[edit] 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

[edit] 1868: The 14th Amendment Creates a New Guarantee of the Right to Arms: The Afro–American Experience

[edit] Civil Rights Movement

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Final Scene

  • Closing Words
  • Credits
  • Dedications

[edit] Note

  1. ^ This is the spelling as used by William Blackstone.

[edit] Persons appearing in the documentary

[edit] Professors of law

Professor School
Akhil Amar Yale Law School
Randy Barnett Boston University School of Law
Robert Cottrol George Washington University Law School
Brannon Denning Cumberland School of Law
Nicholas Johnson Fordham University School of Law
Sanford Levinson University of Texas School of Law
Nelson Lund George Mason University School of Law
Joyce Lee Malcolm George Mason University School of Law
Joseph Olson Hamline University School of Law
Daniel Polsby George Mason University School of Law
Glenn Harlan Reynolds University of Tennessee College of Law
Eugene Volokh UCLA School of Law

[edit] Professors of criminology

Professor School
Gary Kleck Florida State University

[edit] Others

Name Background
Carol Bambery Attorney, NRA Director
Clayton Cramer Historian, author
Sandy Froman Attorney, NRA President
Stephen Halbrook Attorney, Second Amendment author
David T. Hardy Attorney, Second Amendment author
Roy Innis National Chairman of CORE, NRA Director
Don Kates Civil rights attorney, author
Dave Kopel Attorney, Research Director of Independence Institute
Larry Pratt Author, Executive Director of GOA

[edit] External links