The Catholic Second Amendment

Here's some ammunition for Rick's effort to put the Reformation in its place: Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel has posted his new article, "The Catholic Second Amendment."  Here is an excerpt from the conclusion:

One of the values of understanding the debt that the Declaration of Independence and the Second Amendment owe to the Summa Theologica, to Policraticus, and to other great works of Catholic resistance theory is that we can better understand that the American principles of revolution and the right to arms are not novelties that spontaneously arose in 18th-century America or in 17th-century Great Britain.  Rather, they are the natural results of an intellectual tradition that was in many ways far older and broader -- and much more Catholic -- than the American Founders may have realized.

Rob