AP U.S. Government and Politics / Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
3.5 Second Amendment: Right to Bear Arms
Notes
- District of Columbia v. Heller (2008): an individual right to keep a handgun at home for self-defense.
- McDonald v. Chicago (2010): incorporated the Second Amendment against the states.
Practice
Heller (2008) held that the Second Amendment protects:
Individual right.
McDonald v. Chicago applied the Second Amendment to:
Through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Gun regulations raise questions of balancing:
Liberty and order.
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