The Second Amendment on Trial : Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller /

Show other versions (2)

"On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbias stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the mean...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kozuskanich, Nathan, 1975- (Editor), Cornell, Saul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Heller, Dick Anthony.
Heller, Dick Anthony > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. > Constitution. > 2nd Amendment.
Constitution (United States)
Firearms > Law and legislation.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
Washington (D.C.)
United States.
Washington (D.C.) > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Historians before the court
  • Heller and originalism
  • Heller and constitutional doctrine
  • Historical research after Heller.

Similar Items