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SECOND COMES FIRST
How is it the only relevant amendment in our Bill of Rights we cannot bear to impose upon at all? If the logic is that it protects all the others, that logic has failed.
Francesca Laguardia is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University, and a contributing editor for the Criminal Law Bulletin. She was formerly Director of Research at the Center for Law and Security at NYU School of Law. She has a J.D. from NYU and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Law and Society at NYU.
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