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High-Value, Low-Value, and No-Value Guns: Applying Free Speech Law to the Second Amendment
No full textLike the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the Second Amendment stirs fervent debate among legal academics and the American public. Unlike these Amendments, however, the Second Amendment has received very little treatment from the Supreme Court until recently. In District of Columbia v Heller, the Court established that the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms” includes the right to bear arms for self-defense. Without further guidance from the Court, lower courts have struggled to consistently and uniformly determine when the Constitution permits gun regulations in spite of the Second Amendment.
To provide clarity, this Comment offers a new framework for analyzing Second Amendment cases by drawing upon the First Amendment, a close cousin of the Second Amendment. In particular, courts should evaluate gun regulations by determining the value of the underlying regulated gun, similar to how courts ascertain the value of certain speech in the free speech context. The salient question for guns is: To what extent does the gun further the self-defense purpose announced by the Supreme Court? To make this determination, this Comment proposes a set of objective factors—including a gun’s close-range capabilities, compactness, collateral damage risk, and the ease with which it can be wielded—thus cordoning off the shortcomings of the First Amendment’s arguably subjective framework. After explaining how free speech jurisprudence offers useful lessons for Second Amendment analysis, this Comment applies that approach to a nascent issue percolating among lower courts: whether the Second Amendment includes a right to sell a firear
Study of chemical reactions by surface second harmonic generation: p-nitrophenol at the air-water interface
No full textChemical reaction at the interface of a liquid and air has been studied using the technique of surface second harmonic generation. The reaction investigated was the acid-base equilibrium of p-nitrophenol at the air-water interface
ChemInform Abstract: STUDIES OF THE CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATE DIPHENYLCARBENE: INTERSYSTEM CROSSING, SOLVENT EFFECTS ON DYNAMICS, SPIN STATE SELECTIVE CHEMISTRY, PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF THE EXCITED TRIPLET STATE
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Studies of the Chemical Intermediate Diphenylcarbene: Intersystem Crossing, Solvent Effects on Dynamics, Spin State Selective Chemistry, Photochemistry of the Excited Triplet State
No full textStudies of neutral and charged molecules at the air/water interface by surface second harmonic generation: hydrophobic and solvation effects
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ChemInform Abstract: PICOSECOND LASER STUDIES ON THE REACTION OF EXCITED TRIPLET DIPHENYLCARBENE WITH ALCOHOLS
No full textStudies of the Generation and Energy Relaxation in Chemical Intermediates-Divalent Carbon Molecules and Singlet Oxygen
No full textPICOSECOND KINETICS OF STATE-SELECTIVE SINGLET OXYGEN PRODUCING PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF AROMATIC ENDOPEROXIDES
No full textPicosecond measurements show that the photo-fragmentation of anthraccne endoperoxides leading to the anthracene moiety and singlet oxygen does not occur in a single step, but involves a short-lived intermediate. The upper excited state dual bond dissociation kinetics of the endoperoxides of 9,lOdiphenylanthracene (9, I 0-DPA-01) and of 9-phenylanthracene (9,10-PA-O*) were measured. For 9,10-DPA-O2 the ground state aromatic appears in 95 + 10 ps, whereas for 9,10-PA-O2 it appears in 60&7 ps. The results arc consistent with our earlier proposed mechanism for the dissociation from the upper excited singlet states of isomers of the anthracene endoperoxidcs 1
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