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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
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ET AL.,
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Petitioners
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v.
: No. 07-290
DICK ANTHONY HELLER.
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Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The above-entitled matter came on for oral
argument before the Supreme Court of the United States
at 10:06 a.m.
APPEARANCES:
WALTER DELLINGER, ESQ., Washington, D.C.; on behalf

of the Petitioners.

GEN. PAUL D. CLEMENT, ESQ., Solicitor General,
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; on behalf
of the United States, as amicus curiae.

ALAN GURA, ESQ., Alexandria, Va.; on behalf of the
Respondent.
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CONTENTS
ORAL ARGUMENT OF
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WALTER DELLINGER, ESQ.
On behalf of the Petitioners
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as amicus curiae

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On behalf of the Petitioners
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PROCEEDINGS
(10:06 a.m.)

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: We will hear
argument today in Case 07-290, District of Columbia
versus Heller.

Mr. Dellinger.
ORAL ARGUMENT OF WALTER DELLINGER
ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONERS
MR. DELLINGER: Good morning, Mr. Chief
Justice, and may it please the Court:

The Second Amendment was a direct response
to concern over Article I, section 8 of the
Constitution, which gave the new national Congress the
surprising, perhaps even the shocking, power to
organize, arm, and presumably disarm the State militias.
What is at issue this morning is the scope and nature of
the individual right protected by the resulting
amendment and the first text to consider is the phrase,
"protecting the right to keep and bear arms." In the
debates over the Second Amendment, every person who used
the phrase "bear arms" used it to refer to the use of
arms in connection with militia service and when Madison
introduced the amendment in the first Congress, he
exactly equated the phrase "bearing arms" with, quote,
"rendering military service." We know this from the

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