Nautical Management Ass'n v. Culmer

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• observing that unlike the Constitution, which limits the federal govern- ment through enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights, Tennessee’s constitution conferred plenary power upon the state legislature
• observing that unlike the Constitution, which limits the federal govern- ment through enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights, Tennessee’s constitution conferred plenary power upon the state legislature
• affirming the constitutionality of a law regulating public carry of certain weapons which were not the “usual equipment of the soldier” but remanding for consideration of whether a revolver was the “character of weapon” used in warfare
• “The right to keep arms, necessarily involves the right to purchase them, . . . and to purchase and provide ammunition suitable for such arms . . . .”
• equating state provision with Second Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).