The right to bear arms
Subtitle: rights and liberties under the law
By: Robert J. Spitzer.
Series: America's freedoms
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Constitutional history -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins : the British heritage; title: The colonial experience; title: The Constitution; title: The Bill of Rights; title: The decline of the old militia system; title: Supreme Court rulings; title: Other court rulings; title: The textbook view; title: Twentieth-century issues : alternate views; title: The "right of revolution"; title: Spreading arguments in the media; title: Seeking shelter under the Fourteenth Amendment; title: The Second Amendment and politics; title: Rights talk; title: The twenty-first century : the Brady Law, the assault weapons ban, and beyond; title: The new militia movement; title: Recent court actions; title: Escalating Second Amendment rhetoric; title: Key people, cases, and events; title: Documents : the Calling Forth Act of 1792; title: The Uniform Militia Act of 1792; title: United States v. Cruikshank (1876); title: Presser v. Illinois (1886); title: United States v. Miller (1939); title: Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove (1982); title: State right-to-bear-arms provisions; title: Major party platform statements on gun control.