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Perspective

Oct. 9, 2009

Not Just Another Case About Guns

Civil rights attorney Donald Kilmer looks beneath the surface of McDonald v. City of Chicago, recently accepted for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

By Donald Kilmer

Our national government, the one established and limited by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, has only those powers delegated to it by the states and the people. Washington, D.C. exercises certain functions of government, with the remaining functions reserved to state and local governments.

Additionally, there are core civil rights reserved to "the people" that neither the national government nor stat...

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