Gun control and the Constitution : sources and explorations on the Second Amendment /

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Imprint:New York : Garland Pub., 1994.
Description:xlviii, 430 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1628835
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Other authors / contributors:Cottrol, Robert J.
ISBN:0815316666 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • I. General Introduction
  • II. Introduction to Gun Control and the Constitution
  • III. Court Opinions. Aymette vs. The State. Presser v. Illinois. United States v. Miller et al.
  • IV. Congress. Firearms Owners' Protection Act. Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
  • V. General Topics. Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment / Don B. Kates, Jr. The Embarrassing Second Amendment / Sanford Levinson. Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment / Dennis A. Henigan
  • VI. The English Background. Standing Armies and Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment / Roy G. Weatherup. The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition / Joyce Lee Malcolm
  • VII. Citizenship, Republicanism, and the Right to Bear Arms. The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment / Robert E. Shalhope. An Armed Community: The Origins and Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms / Lawrence Delbert Cress. Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment / David C. Williams. The Fourteenth Amendment and The Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers / Stephen P. Halbrook. The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond.