In Search of the Second Amendment is a documentary film on the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. It was produced and directed by American author and attorney David T. Hardy. He argues the individual rights model of the Second Amendment. Hardy also discusses the Fourteenth Amendment.
How Did You Become Interested in the Second Amendment?Legal Scholarship and the Second AmendmentEngland and the MilitiaDuty to be Armed1688A Medieval Duty Becomes an "Antient and Indubitable Right"
King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Richard CromwellKing Charles II, King James II, and Gun ControlThe Glorious Revolution, King William III, Queen Mary II, and the Bill of Rights 16891603–1768Rights of Englishmen, Rights of Americans
The Colonies and the Duty to be ArmedThe Right to Arms and William Blackstone1768–1775The Right Is Challenged as Revolution Approaches
Britain takes notice and the Redcoats Come to BostonConflict Breaks Out1776–1780The First State Constitutions Give Different Models for a Right to Arms
Virginia Declaration of RightsPennsylvania Declaration of RightsMassachusetts Declaration of Rights1787–1789A Proposal for a New Constitution Leads to Calls for a National Right to Arms
The Constitutional Convention and the Bill of RightsState Ratification and Declaration of Rights ProposalsVirginia and the Demand for a Bill of RightsThe Compromise and James MadisonDrafting of the Right to ArmsThe Militia and Standing Armies1789In the First
Congress, James Madison Fulfils the Great Compromise
Madison and the Bill of RightsHow the Second Amendment was DraftedThe Militia, the States, and the Federal GovernmentThe Senate and the Second AmendmentTench CoxeSt. George TuckerWilliam RawleThomas CooleyContemporaries and the Second AmendmentSo What's the Debate? Tracing the Origin of the Belief that the 2nd Amendment Relates to a State's Right to have a National GuardMeaning of "The People"Origin of the Collective RightKansas Supreme CourtThe National GuardUnited States v. Miller (1939)United States v. Emerson (2001)1868The 14th Amendment Creates a New Guarantee of the Right to Arms: The Afro–American Experience
Slave CodesDred Scott v. Sandford (1856)Black CodesViews and Response of CongressCivil Rights Act of 1866 and Freedmen's Bureau Act of 1866The Federal Bill of Rights and the StatesThe Fourteenth AmendmentIn Re Slaughter–House Cases (1873)United States v. Cruikshank (1875)D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a NationCivil Rights MovementProfessor Olson's and Don Kate's Experiences as workers during the Civil Rights MovementDeacons for DefenseRobert Williams and the NRALumbee Indian TribeAmerican Enterprise Institute (AEI) Symposium on the Right to ArmsMeaning of "The People" RevisitedDred Scott RevisitedA New View of Standing Armies and MilitiasThe Fourteenth Amendment RevisitedRepublican and Democratic Party Platforms on the Right to ArmsFreedmen's Bureau Act of 1866 Revisited18th and 19th Century Interpretation of the Second AmendmentGovernments, Genocides, and Utility of the RightArmed Resistance and GenocideProtection from Different Sources of OppressionFrequency of Defensive Gun Uses and Crimes CommittedGuns and Number of Lives Saved vs. Lives TakenPolice and the Legal Duty to Protect the PublicWarren v. District of Columbia (1981)View of Fellow CitizensEffectiveness of Defensive Gun UseRight of Self-defense and the Right to ArmsProtecting the Second Amendment and Other RightsFinal SceneClosing WordsCreditsDedicationsProfessors of lawProfessors of criminologyOthers 
