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Saving the Constitution from Lawyers: How Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning

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Interesting critique of the often 'shaky' nature of law journal
scholarship and writing, spotlighting topics that have been embraced
by the political Right. Someone with comparable gravitas should
be inspired to use Spitzer's engaging format to expose the glut
of Progressive overreaching that crowds these journals as well.
His section debunking the "individualist" interpretation of the
2nd Amendment is the main flaw here, and displays a tendency toward
the kind of dismissive, politically-biased scholarship that he opposes so
successfully elsewhere in this work (and robs this review of two stars).
I need to go back and check just how many of the "collectivist school"
Second Amendment law journal articles cited were actually bankrolled
by the Joyce Foundation and other gun control advocacy groups.