A well-regulated militia : the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America

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Main Author: Cornell, Saul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America
  • A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment
  • "The true palladium of liberty" : federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment
  • Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms
  • Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns
  • Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate
  • A new paradigm for the Second Amendment.