Fundamental Rights and the Right to Bear Arms

Criminal Justice Ethics 20 (1):25-27 (2001)
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Abstract

This paper discusses the views of Wheeler and LaFollette on the right to bear arms. It argues, with LaFollette and against Wheeler that the right to bear arms is derivative and not a fundamental right. My argument pivots on the idea that Wheeler's account of what makes a right fundamental is too broad.

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Cynthia A. Stark
University of Utah

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Gun control.Hugh LaFollette - 2000 - Ethics 110 (2):263-281.
Gun violence and fundamental rights.Samuel C. Wheeler - 2001 - Criminal Justice Ethics 20 (1):19-24.

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