A Well-Regulated Militia
Subtitle: the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780195341034
Copyright date: 2006
Notes: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2008" - t.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America; title: A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment; title: "The true palladium of liberty" : Federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment; title: Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms; title: Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns; title: Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate; title: Conclusion : A new paradigm for the Second Amendment