A well-regulated militia : the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America Saul Cornell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornell, Saul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--2nd Amendment.

United States.

Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.

Firearms.

United States--Militia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Includes information on Aymette v. State, Barron v. Baltimore, Bliss v. Commonwealth, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Houston v. Moore, Luther v. Borden, State v. Buzzard, U.S. v. Avery, U.S. v. Cruikshank, U.S. v. Emerson, U.S. v. Miller, U. S. v. Mitchell, U.S. v. Tot, duels, Fourteenth Amendment, gun control, gun rights, Thomas Jefferson, Ku Klux Klan, Fries,s Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, Bill of Rights, Second Amendment, etc.

Contents:

English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America

A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment

"The true palladium of liberty" : federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment

Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms

Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns

Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate

A new paradigm for the Second Amendment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-261) and index.

ISBN:

0195147863 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780195147865

OCLC:

62741396

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