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The Second Amendment in law and history : historians and constitutional scholars on the right to bear arms /

In The Second Amendment in Law and History, the nation's leading historical and constitutional scholars -- including Jack Rakove (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Original Meanings), Michael Bellesiles (author of Arming America), Michael Dorf, Daniel Farber, and Paul Finkelman -- marshal a...

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Other Authors: Bogus, Carl T. (Editor), Bellesiles, Michael A. (Contributor), Dorf, Michael C. (Contributor), Farber, Daniel A., 1950- (Contributor), Finkelman, Paul, 1949- (Contributor), Heyman, Steven J. (Contributor), Merkel, William G., 1965- (Contributor), Rakove, Jack N., 1947- (Contributor), Schwoerer, Lois G. (Contributor), Spitzer, Robert J., 1953- (Contributor), Uviller, H. Richard (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, [2000]
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 2nd Amendment.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Constitution (United States)
Firearms > Law and legislation
United States
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Wapenbezit.
Wetgeving.
United States. > Constitution. > 2nd Amendment
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States > History
USA > Verfassung (1787) > Amendment 2.
History
Table of Contents:
  • The history and politics of Second Amendment scholarship : a primer / Carl T. Bogus
  • Lost and found : researching the Second Amendment / Robert J. Spitzer
  • The Second Amendment in action / Michael A. Bellesiles
  • The Second Amendment : the highest stage of originalism / Jack N. Rakove
  • "A well regulated militia" : the Second Amendment in historical perspective / Paul Finkelman
  • Muting the Second Amendment : the disappearance of the constitutional militia / H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel
  • Natural rights and the Second Amendment / Steven J. Heyman
  • To hold and bear arms : the English perspective / Lois G. Schwoerer
  • Disarmed by time : the Second Amendment and the failure of originalism / Daniel A. Farber
  • What does the Second Amendment mean today? / Michael C. Dorf.