| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
United States expansion and the development of a national firearms industry / Lindsay Schakenbach Regele -- Scottish history, presbyterian culture, and the right to bear arms / Neil McIntyre -- "A well-regulated militia" : constitutional politics, the Second Amendment, and the militia in the Jacksonian era and the American Civil War / Nicholas Mosvick -- Gun laws in early America : the sometimes contradictory regulations of gun use in the Colonial South / Sally E. Hadden -- To brandish or not to brandish : the consequences of gun display / Robert J. Spitzer -- The life she saves may be her own : the radical feminist argument for women's gun armed self-defense / Mary Zeiss Stange -- Gun laws targeting "dangerous" groups and outsiders / Joseph Blocher and Caitlan Carberry -- Strange bedfellows : racism and gun rights in American history and current scholarship / Brennan Gardner Rivas -- A brief overview of gun registration in United States history / Genesa Cefali and Jacob D. Charles -- Historical militia law, fire prevention law, and the modern Second Amendment / Mark Anthony Frassetto -- Abolition, armed self-defense, and firearms regulation in Antebellum America : the enforcement of surety laws in Boston / Saul Cornell -- Constitutional liquidation, surety laws, and the right to bear arms / Robert Leider -- Prohibitions on private armies in seven state constitutions / Darrell A. H. Miller |
| Summary |
In 2008, the Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. Relying heavily on historical sources, the Court concluded that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a personal right to keep and bear arms for purposes unrelated to a government-run militia. Heller not only marked the judicial culmination of a decades-long historical dispute, but also ushered in a new wave of legal challenges that in turn raised the need for further scholarship on the historical scope of gun rights and regulation in Anglo-American history. In hundreds of cases over the next 15 years, judges relied on both historical research and contemporary evidence in evaluating the constitutionality of gun laws designed to address contemporary problems of the most visceral kind |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2023 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Heller, Dick Anthony -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Heller, Dick Anthony fast |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Constitution (United States) fast |
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Gun control -- United States -- History
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Gun control
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Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
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Law.
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| SUBJECT |
Washington (D.C.) -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| Subject |
United States
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Washington (D.C.)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blocher, Joseph, editor
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Charles, Jacob D., editor
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Miller, Darrell A. H., 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780197748503 |
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0197748503 |
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0197748481 |
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9780197748480 |
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