In Search of the Second Amendment is a documentary film on the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. It was produced and directed by American author and attorney David T. Hardy. He argues the individual rights model of the Second Amendment. Hardy also discusses the Fourteenth Amendment.
Outline of the documentary How Did You Become Interested in the Second Amendment? Legal Scholarship and the Second Amendment
England and the Militia Duty to be Armed
1688 A Medieval Duty Becomes an "AntientThis is the spelling as used by William Blackstone. and Indubitable Right" King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Richard Cromwell King Charles II, King James II, and Gun Control The Glorious Revolution, King William III, Queen Mary II, and the Bill of Rights 1689
1603–1768 Rights of Englishmen, Rights of Americans The Colonies and the Duty to be Armed The Right to Arms and William Blackstone
1768–1775 The Right Is Challenged as Revolution Approaches Britain takes notice and the Redcoats Come to Boston Conflict Breaks Out
1776–1780 The First State Constitutions Give Different Models for a Right to Arms Virginia Declaration of Rights Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights Massachusetts Declaration of Rights
1787–1789 A Proposal for a New Constitution Leads to Calls for a National Right to Arms The Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights State Ratification and Declaration of Rights Proposals Virginia and the Demand for a Bill of Rights The Compromise and James Madison Drafting of the Right to Arms The Militia and Standing Armies
1789 In the First Congress, James Madison Fulfils the Great Compromise Madison and the Bill of Rights How the Second Amendment was Drafted The Militia, the States, and the Federal Government The Senate and the Second Amendment Tench Coxe St. George Tucker William Rawle Thomas Cooley Contemporaries and the Second Amendment
So What's the Debate? Tracing the Origin of the Belief that the 2nd Amendment Relates to a State's Right to have a National Guard Meaning of "The People" Origin of the Collective Right Kansas Supreme Court The National Guard United States v. Miller (1939) United States v. Emerson (2001)
1868 The 14th Amendment Creates a New Guarantee of the Right to Arms: The Afro–American Experience Slave Codes Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856) Black Codes Views and Response of Congress Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1866 The Federal Bill of Rights and the States The Fourteenth Amendment In Re Slaughter–House Cases (1873) United States v. Cruikshank (1875) D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
Civil Rights Movement Professor Olson's and Don Kate's Experiences as workers during the Civil Rights Movement Deacons for Defense Robert Williams and the NRA Lumbee Indian Tribe
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Symposium on the Right to Arms Meaning of "The People" Revisited Dred Scott Revisited A New View of Standing Armies and Militias The Fourteenth Amendment Revisited Republican and Democratic Party Platforms on the Right to Arms Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1866 Revisited 18th and 19th Century Interpretation of the Second Amendment
Governments, Genocides, and Utility of the Right Armed Resistance and Genocide Protection from Different Sources of Oppression Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses and Crimes Committed Guns and Number of Lives Saved vs. Lives Taken Police and the Legal Duty to Protect the Public Warren v. District of Columbia (1981) View of Fellow Citizens Effectiveness of Defensive Gun Use Right of Self-defense and the Right to Arms Protecting the Second Amendment and Other Rights
Final Scene Closing Words Credits Dedications
Persons appearing in the documentary Professors of law Professor School Akhil Amar Yale Law School Randy Barnett Boston University School of Law Robert Cottrol George Washington University Law School Brannon Denning Cumberland School of Law Nicholas Johnson Fordham University School of Law Sanford Levinson University of Texas School of Law Nelson Lund George Mason University School of Law Joyce Lee Malcolm George Mason University School of Law Joseph Olson Hamline University School of Law Daniel Polsby George Mason University School of Law Glenn Harlan Reynolds University of Tennessee College of Law Eugene Volokh UCLA School of Law
Professors of criminology Professor School Gary Kleck Florida State University
Others Name Background Carol Bambery Attorney, NRA Director Clayton Cramer Historian, author Sandy Froman Attorney, NRA President Stephen Halbrook Attorney, Second Amendment author David T. Hardy Attorney, Second Amendment author Roy Innis National Chairman of CORE, NRA Director Don Kates Civil rights attorney, author Dave Kopel Attorney, Research Director of Independence Institute Larry Pratt Author, Executive Director of GOA
Notes
External links Official website Videos about documentary at YouTube Trailer (2:10) Various previews JPFO interview about documentary MP3 format (26:41, 12.2 MiB) Liberty Watch Radio interview about documentary (MP3 format) Part 1 (47:01, 8.07 MiB) Part 2 (47:37, 8.17 MiB) Gun Talk interview about documentary (MP3 format, 44:40, 10.3 MiB)