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The Second Amendment on trial : critical essays on District of Columbia v. Heller / edited by Saul Cornell & Nathan Kozuskanich.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heller, Dick Anthony--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Heller, Dick Anthony.
- United States. Constitution--2nd Amendment.
- United States.
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
- Firearms.
- Washington (D.C.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S.Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment.
- Contents:
- Historians before the court
- Heller and originalism
- Heller and constitutional doctrine
- Historical research after Heller.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-258-5
- OCLC:
- 867742168
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