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The right to bear arms : rights and liberties under the law /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spitzer, Robert J., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2001]
Series:America's freedoms.
Subjects:
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • What the Second Amendment says
  • Outline of the book
  • 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 Brady Law, the assault weapons ban, and beyond
  • The new militia movement
  • Recent court actions
  • Escalating Second Amendment rhetoric
  • Key people, cases, and events
  • 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 on gun control.