The Second Amendment in law and history
Subtitle: historians and constitutional scholars on the right to bear arms
By: edited by Carl T. Bogus ; with contributions by Michael A. Bellesiles ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bogus, Carl T.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: United States.; Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: The history and politics of Second Amendment scholarship: a primer / Carl T. Bogus; title: Lost and found: researching the Second Amendment / Robert J. Spitzer; title: The Second Amendment in action / Michael A. Bellesiles; title: The Second Amendment: the highest stage of originalism / Jack N. Rakove; title: "A well regulated militia": the Second Amendment in historical perspective / Paul Finkelman; title: Muting the Second Amendment: the disappearance of the constitutional militia / H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel; title: Natural rights and the Second Amendment / Steven J. Heyman; title: To hold and bear arms: the English perspective / Lois G. Schwoerer; title: Disarmed by time: the Second Amendment and the failure of originalism / Daniel A. Farber; title: What does the Second Amendment mean today? / Michael C. Dorf.