Citation

Dowlut R. J. Firearms Public Policy 1993; 5(1): 153-163.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Second Amendment Foundation)

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Abstract

Guarantees of individual liberties under federalism have two components: the Federal Constitution and state constitutions. Reliance should first be placed on a state's bill of rights, of declaration of rights, because the U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly acknowledged each state's "sovereign right to adopt in its own Constitution individual liberties more expansive than those conferred by the Federal Constitution [Prune Yard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74, 81 (1980)]. The constitutions of forty-three states guarantee a right to arms.