An edition of A Well-Regulated Militia
(2008)
A Well-Regulated Militia
the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America
by Saul Cornell
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An extensive and nuanced examination of the original meaning of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. No other author probes as deeply into reconstructing and analyzing the thinking of the framers.
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A Well-Regulated Militia: the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America
2008, Oxford University Press
Paperback
in English
0195341031 9780195341034
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
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
Conclusion : A new paradigm for the Second Amendment
Edition Notes
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2008" - t.p. verso.
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