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The right to bear arms : rights and liberties under the law / Robert J. Spitzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spitzer, Robert J., 1953-
- Series:
- America's freedoms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
- Firearms.
- Firearms--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2001]
- Summary:
- Gun control is one of the most controversial issues of public concern of the last several decades. Vociferous discussions on gun control are as prevalent in America as guns themselves. It's no surprise that this acrimonious debate has generated a mind-boggling body of facts, statistics, myths, assumptions, opinions, misrepresentations, and outright lies.
- An objective examination of the Second Amendment, focusing on the intentions of its authors, its evolution from America's beginnings to the present time, and the views expressed by the courts.
- Features
- AZ listing of key events and people
- Four discursive chapters: Introduction, Origins and Development, Twentieth-Century Issues, and Into the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Prospects
- Includes extracted versions of the three key Supreme Court cases and a fourth lower federal court case
- Discusses important statutory changes during the twentieth century
- Contents:
- Origins : the British heritage
- The colonial experience
- The Constitution
- The Federalist-Antifederalist Debate
- The Bill of Rights
- The decline of the old militia system
- Supreme Court rulings
- Other court rulings
- The textbook view
- Twentieth-century issues : alternate views
- The "right of revolution"
- Spreading arguments in the media
- Seeking shelter under the Fourteenth Amendment
- The Second Amendment and politics
- Rights talk
- The twenty-first century : the Brady Law, the assault weapons ban, and beyond
- The new militia movement
- Recent court actions
- Escalating Second Amendment rhetoric
- Key people, cases, and events
- Documents : the Calling Forth Act of 1792
- The Uniform Militia Act of 1792
- United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
- Presser v. Illinois (1886)
- United States v. Miller (1939)
- Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove (1982)
- State right-to-bear-arms provisions
- Major party platform statements on gun control.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1576073475
- OCLC:
- 47849401
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