A well regulated militia
Subtitle: the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America
By: Saul Cornell.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780195147865
Subjects: United States; Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States; United States -- Militia
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: English tyranny vs. 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, regulation, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns; title: Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate.