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The Second Amendment comes first in teaching constitutional law

  • Written by Anthony Johnstone, Professor of Constitutional Law, The University of Montana
The Second Amendment comes first in teaching constitutional lawThe Second Amendment used to be absent from constitutional law classes. No more.Shutterstock

Twenty years ago, when I was a law student taking constitutional law, the Second Amendment did not even come up in class.

Today, as a law professor, I teach the Second Amendment as the very first case in my constitutional law class.

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