[http://rkba.org/research/asa] Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 20:28:21 EDT From: John Grossbohlin Subject: reformatted file To: Jeff Chan Jeff, Following is the reformatted text of the A2A file Don Kates gave me to distribute. I've been real busy getting the county wide RTKBAs alert BBS up and running and helping people to get logged on.. .. it's going well! John ******** Last spring an advertisement by Academics for the Second Amendment. appeared in the NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, the NEW REPUBLIC and the NATIONAL REVIEW until Academics ran out of money to keep sponsoring it. Its more than 60 signers include some of the major players in American constitutional law today: law professors, historians, philosophers and political scientists from Cornell, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Tulane, U.C.L.A., Yale and numerous other schools. And the statements made in it were supported by actual footnotes to articles from YALE, MICHIGAN and GEORGETOWN law journals, among others. The ad reads in full: "The view that the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees only the states' right to maintain formal militias has attained a surprising respectability. That may be more explicable as an expression of the hostility many academicians feel towards guns and their owners than as an unbiased constitutional interpretation. The Second Amendment does not guarantee merely a 'right of the states,' but rather a 'right of the people,' a term which, as used throughout the Bill of Rights (e.g. the First and Fourth Amendments), is widely understood to encompass a personal right of citizens. "Moreover, the Amendment refers to the 'militia', a term which in the 18th Century meant not a formal military unit like the National Guard, but a system under which every household and every man of military age was required to own a gun in order to defend the community against foreign invasion, tyranny and crime. The leading interpretations before Congress when it enacted the Bill of Rights affirmed that by the Second Amendment 'the people are confirmed in their right to keep and bear their private arms' -- 'their own arms.' "Furthermore, the 'individual right' component of Second Amendment thought became even more important in constitutional theory due to the transformation wrought by and through the debates in the [after the Civil War] Congress concerning the privileges and immunities of national citizenship. Many Congressmen pointed out that blacks in the South needed to be constitutionally protected in the citizen's individual right to bear arms in self-defense. "Of course, the right to bear arms is no more 'absolute' than is the right to speak, to publish, or to assemble. Hence, there is room for disagreement over the scope of Second Amendment rights, just as their currently exists legitimate disagreement over the scope of First Amendment rights of assembly and free speech. Nothing in this statement, therefore, is intended to deny either the constitutionality of, or the need for, sensible gun laws." eof __ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 22:19:23 EDT From: John Grossbohlin Subject: Re: reformatted file To: Jeff Chan [I asked John for updated contact info. Here's how you can help ASA keep getting the word out as they did above. -- Jeff C.] [...] _______________________________________________________________ Yes, I'll contribute to help publish this advertisement and foster intellectually honest discourse on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Second Amendment. Enclosed is my check for ___ $25 ___ $100 ___ Other Name:_____________________________________________________ Academic Affiliation, if any ____________________________ __________________________________________________________ Street____________________________________________________ City ________________________ State ____________ ZIP _____ Send To: Academics for the Second Amendment Professor J. E. Olson, President PO Box 131254 St Paul, MN 55113 This contribution is deductible for federal income tax purposes. ____________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 23:38:50 EDT From: John Grossbohlin Subject: A2A Signers To: Jeff Chan Jeff, Following is the list of A2A ad signers. I got a note from someone asking for the list... It didn't occur to me that anyone would want it! John Professor William B. Allen--Harvey Mudd College (History) Professor Akhil R. Amar--Yale Law School Professor Thomas E. Baker--Texas Tech University School of Law Professor Randy K. Barnett--Chicago-Kent Law School Professor Patrick J. Basial--Duquesne School of Law Professor Robert Baley--Stetson University School of Law Professor James E. Beaver--University of Puget Sound School of Law Professor David Beito--University of Nevada at Las Vegas (History) Professor Herman Betz--University of Maryland (History) Professor Albert P. Blaustein--Rutgers-Camden School of Law Professor Charles L. Cantrell--Oklahoma City University School of Law Professor Catherine Clarke--Layola Law School, New Orleans Professor Robert J. Cottrol--Rutgers-Camden School of Law Professor Preston K. Covey--Carnegie Mellon University (Philosophy) Professor Raymond T. Diamond--Tulane University School of Law Professor David Engdahl--University of Puget Sound School of Law Professor Edward J Erler--California State University at San Bernardino (Politic Professor Smith Fussner--Reed College (History) Professor William E. Garland--Seton Hall University School of Law Professor J. Gordon Hylton--Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Robert Jacobs--Central Washington University (Political Science) Professor Nicholas J. Johnson--Franklin & Marshall College (Legal Studies) Professor Michael Krauss--George Mason University School of Law Professor Sanford Levinson--University of Texas School of Law Professor Nelson Lund--George Mason University School of Law Professor David Mayer--Capital University Law School Professor Roger McGrath--University of California at Los Angles (History) Professor F. Thornton Miller--Southwest Missouri State University (History) Professor Richard Morgan--Bowdoin College (Government) Professor Richard T. Oakes--Hamline University School of Law Professor Joseph Edward Olson--Hamline University School of Law Professor Jeffrey S. Parker--George Mason University School of Law Professor Daniel D. Polsby--Northwestern University School of Law Professor Jeremy Rabkin--Cornell University (Government) Professor Paul A. Rahe--University of Tulsa (History) Professor Gerard A. Rault--Layola Law School, New Orleans Professor Charles Rice--Notre Dame School of Law Professor Judith Schafer--Tulane University (History) Professor George M Strickler--Tulane University School of Law Dean Glen Thurow--University of Dallas (Political Science) Professor David Vandercoy--Valparasio University School of Law Professor Lynn Wardle--Brigham Young University School of Law Professor James B. Whisker--West Virginia University (Political Science) Professor Michael A. Wolff--Saint Louse University School of Law Professor Roy Wortman--Kenyon College (History) John A. Grossbohlin Business Administration GROSSBOJ@NPVM.NEWPALTZ.EDU Organizational Studies Ph.D. Program JG7831@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU