The controversy surrounding the Second Amendment—“the right of the people to keep and bear arms”—is, to a large extent, historical in nature, redolent of other matters in this country’s legal and constitutional past. But the historical analogies that might support the Amendment’s repeal do not permit easy conclusions. The issue demands that legal historians venture beyond familiar territory to confront unavoidable problems at the intersection of theory and practice and of constitutional law and popular constitutionalism. An interdisciplinary analysis of Lichtman’s Repeal the Second Amendment illuminates the political, legal, and constitutional dimensions—as well as the perils—of undertaking the arduous amending process permitted by Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

关于第二修正案的争议-“人民拥有武器的权利”在很大程度上是历史性的，重述了该国法律和宪法过去的其他问题。但是，可能支持该修正案被废除的历史类比并不能得出简单的结论。这个问题要求法律史学家冒险进入熟悉的领域，以在理论与实践以及宪法与大众宪政的交汇中面对不可避免的问题。对利希曼的《废除第二修正案》的跨学科分析阐明了进行美国宪法第五条所允许的艰巨修正程序的政治，法律和宪法层面以及其危险性。