New at Reason: Damon Root on the Chicago Gun Case and the Fight for Economic Liberty

February 26, 2010

When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments next week in the landmark gun rights case McDonald v. Chicago, the Second Amendment won’t be the only thing on the justices’ minds. That’s because when it comes to protecting constitutional rights from the depredations of state and local governments, the Court must obey the 14th Amendment. And as Associate Editor Damon W. Root writes, that amendment was designed to protect a sweepingly individualistic form of self-ownership, one that includes both the right to armed self-defense and the right to pursue an honest living free from arbitrary and unnecessary government interference.

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