Well-Regulated Militia The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America

Name: Well-Regulated Militia The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
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ISBN: 9780195341034

ISBN-10: 0195341031

ISBN-13: 9780195341034

Edition: 2008

Authors: Saul Cornell

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Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading constitutional historian, shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but as a civic right--an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could participate in a well regulated militia. He shows how the modern "collective…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



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


Conclusion: A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment


Notes


Index