Few individuals in recent years have had such a profound impact on scholarship, public debate and public policy as has Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook. The leading constitutional legal scholar and attorney on the Second Amendment, who has won three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Dr. Halbrook has authored numerous seminal…
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What a feast for law geeks.  Today, the Supreme Court actually decided an incorporation case.  Most of us never thought we would see such in our life times.  What is incorporation?  It is the judicially created doctrine that certain provisions of the the bill of rights are applicable to the states.  History teaches that…
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Few books have had the scale of impact on a public policy debate more than has More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, by John R. Lott, Jr. Now a decade after its first release and the raging debate it launched, the book is available as a less expensive paperback in…
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