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

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195147863 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780195147865
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.7305/33 22
LOC classification:
  • KF4558 2nd .C67 2006
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks KF4558 2 ND .C67 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001015006

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-261) and index.

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.

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.

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