The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent /

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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."--Amendment II, United States ConstitutionThe Second Amendment is regularly invoked by opponents of gun control, but H. Richard Uviller and Wil...

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Autores principales: Uviller, H. Richard (Autor), Merkel, William G., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Constitution. > 2nd Amendment.
Constitution (United States)
Militia.
Firearms > Law and legislation.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Milice.
United States > Militia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The gun in the American self-portrait
  • The militia ideal in the American revolutionary era
  • Madisonian structuralism: the place of the militia in the new American science of government
  • The decay of the old militia, 1789-1840
  • The era of the volunteers, 1840-1903
  • The United States Army and the United States Army National Guard in the twentieth century
  • Text and context
  • Other theories of meaning considered
  • The Emerson case.

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