Firearms & Violence in American Life: A Staff Report Submitted to the National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence, Količina 81George D. Newton, Franklin E. Zimring, United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1969 - 268 strani |
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Stran 260 - In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within. judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common...
Stran 254 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Stran 259 - ... is not a right granted by the constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by congress. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow-citizens of the rights it...
Stran 259 - But a conclusive answer to the contention that this amendment prohibits the legislation in question lies in the fact that the amendment is a limitation only upon the power of Congress and the National Government, and not upon that of the States.
Stran 258 - The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
Stran 257 - ... 11. That each State respectively shall have the power to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining its own militia, whensoever Congress shall omit or neglect to provide for the same. That the militia shall not be subject to martial law, except when in actual service in time of war, invasion or rebellion ; and when not in the actual service of the United States, shall be subject only to such fines, penalties, and punishments, as shall be directed or inflicted by the laws of its own State.
Stran 107 - Rev. 326, 334, and n. 42 (1976). •'The Congress hereby finds and declares that the receipt, possession, or transportation of a firearm by felons, veterans who are discharged under dishonorable conditions, mental incompetents, aliens who are illegally in the country, and former citizens who have renounced their citizenship, constitutes — . "(1) a burden on commerce or threat affecting the free flow of commerce...
Stran 255 - By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law; 6. By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law; 7.
Stran 264 - It would be an extreme if not an extravagant application of the Fifth Amendment to say that it authorized a man to refuse to state the amount of his income because it had been made in crime.
Stran 257 - That no soldier shall be enlisted for any longer term than four years, except in time of war, and then for no longer term than the continuance of the war XI.