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Author Cornell, Saul.

Title A well-regulated militia : the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America / Saul Cornell
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 270 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment.
SUBJECT USA Verfassung 1787 Amendment 2 gnd
Constitution (United States) fast
Subject Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States
Gun control -- United States -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Gun control
Firearms -- Law and legislation
Militia
Gesetzgebung
Waffenbesitz
Waffenrecht
Miliz
Armes à feu -- Droit -- États-Unis.
SUBJECT United States -- Militia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140381
Subject United States
USA
États-Unis -- Constitution -- Amendements (02e)
États-Unis -- Milice.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198033738
0198033737
0195147863
9780195147865
9780199788644
0199788642