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Guns in Law Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
- The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--2nd Amendment.
- United States.
- Gun control--United States.
- Gun control.
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
- Firearms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries.Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants "mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms." Today ownership of weapons--whether handguns or military-grade assault weapons--poses more acute legal problems than.
- Contents:
- The changing meaning of the right to keep and bear arms : 1688-1788
- The expressive second amendment
- Guns, interpretation, and executive branch constitutionalism
- the hard, simple truth about gun control
- Merely regulation?
- Good moms with guns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-678-5
- OCLC:
- 1105944886
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