Whether and How to Apply the Bill of Rights to States

In District of Columbia v. Heller, a 2008 landmark Second Amendment case that protects an individual right to bear arms for self-defense in the home, U.S. Law Week editors think the decision opens a long dormant issue:  Whether and how to apply the Constitution's Bill of Rights to the states.  The reason the editors think the decision has opened this issue is that the Court in Heller left open whether the Second Amendment applies to gun control laws adopted by states because the case involved District of Columbia law.  More at 77 U.S.L.W. 1510...

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