https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3 By: Tyler Lipscomb en-us 2020-11-18 14:27:32 UTC 2026-02-22 02:14:39 UTC hello@padlet.com tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937784042 The Chief Justice was John Roberts. The Associate Justices were Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, John P Stevens, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito. ]]> 2020-11-18 17:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937784042 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937794977 A D.C. special police officer named Dick Anthony Heller was allowed to carry a handgun while on duty. He eventually tried to apply for a one year license for a handgun but it was not accepted.

]]> 2020-11-18 17:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937794977 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937805764 -Originally the District of Columbia dismissed the complaint. 
-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit changed the dismissal in a 2-1 vote. This revealed that the Firearms Control Regulations Act was unconstitutional. ]]> 2020-11-18 17:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/937805764 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952847217 - The Second Amendment to the Constitution, in the text, guarantees an individual right that does not depend on eligibility for a service in the militia. ]]> 2020-11-23 15:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952847217 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952902988 -In the debates over the Second Amendment, every person who used the phrase "bear arms" used it to refer to the use of arms in connection with militia service and when Madison introduced the amendment in the first Congress. ]]> 2020-11-23 16:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952902988 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952920532 - Do the provisions of the District of Columbia Code that restrict the licensing of handguns and require licensed firearms kept nonfunctional violate the Second Amendment?]]> 2020-11-23 16:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952920532 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952927366 - It was a 5-4 majority
- The Court held that the first clause of the Second Amendment is a prefatory clause that does not limit the operative clause of the Amendment. ]]> 2020-11-23 16:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952927366 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952955456 -Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the Second Amendment does not create an unlimited right to possess guns for self-defense.  The  Amendment actually protects the right to keep and bear arms for certain military purposes 
- There was no concurring opinion found. ]]> 2020-11-23 16:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952955456 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952974454 -This Court Case made the provisions of the District of Columbia code restrict the licensing of handguns and require licensed firearms kept in the home to be kept nonfunctional. ]]> 2020-11-23 16:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952974454 tlipsc6826 https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952987473 -In my opinion this is a example of Judicial Activism because this violated the Second Amendment and this called for a change in the law. ]]> 2020-11-23 16:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tlipsc6826/lpr7juvgbjbllha3/wish/952987473