Title: Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect
Abstract: Foreword - Preface - A Note for Students - PART ONE: THE DOCUMENT - The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1791 - PART TWO: INTRODUCTION - The Historical Context of the Second Amendment - Historians and the Second Amendment - PART THREE: SOME CURRENT QUESTIONS - Did the Second Amendment Protect an Individual Right to Own Guns? R.E.Shalhope - Was the Second Amendment Intended to Protect the Militia's Right to Own Guns? L.D.Cress - Was the Second Amendment Part of the Federalist Effort to Block the Anti-Federalist States' Rights Agenda? G.Wills - What Role did the Second Amendment Play in the Evolution of American Federalism? D.Higginbotham - How did the Ideal of the Militia and the Reality of the Militia Differ in Revolutionary America? E.S.Morgan - What was the Myth of the Armed Citizenry in the United States? M.A.Bellesiles - Making Connections - Suggestions for Further Reading
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-04-07
Language: en
Type: book
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