TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spitzer,Robert J.
TI  - The right to bear arms: rights and liberties under the law 
SN  - 1576073475 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - KF3941 .S68 2001
U1  - 344.73/0533 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Santa Barbara, Calif.
PB  - ABC-CLIO
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitutional history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index; Origins : the British heritage -- The colonial experience -- The Constitution -- The Bill of Rights -- The decline of the old militia system -- Supreme Court rulings -- Other court rulings -- The textbook view -- Twentieth-century issues : alternate views -- The "right of revolution" -- Spreading arguments in the media -- Seeking shelter under the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Second Amendment and politics -- Rights talk -- The twenty-first century : the Brady Law, the assault weapons ban, and beyond -- The new militia movement -- Recent court actions -- Escalating Second Amendment rhetoric -- Key people, cases, and events -- Documents : the Calling Forth Act of 1792 -- The Uniform Militia Act of 1792 -- United States v. Cruikshank (1876) -- Presser v. Illinois (1886) -- United States v. Miller (1939) -- Quilici v. Village of Morton Grove (1982) -- State right-to-bear-arms provisions -- Major party platform statements on gun control
ER  -