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Author:

Cornell, Saul.

Title:

A well-regulated militia : the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America / Saul Cornell.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Constitution.--2nd Amendment.
Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
United States--Militia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-261) and index.

Contents:

Index. Introduction -- ch. 6. English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America -- ch. 2. A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment -- ch. 3. "The true palladium of liberty" : Federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment -- ch. 4. Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms -- ch. 5. Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns -- ch. 6. 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.

Summary:

Includes information on Aymette v. State, Barron v. Baltimore, Bliss v. Commonwealth, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Houston v. Moore, Luther v. Borden, State v. Buzzard, U.S. v. Avery, U.S. v. Cruikshank, U.S. v. Emerson, U.S. v. Miller, U.S. v. Mitchell, U.S. v. Tot, duels, Fourteenth Amendment, gun control, gun rights, Thomas Jefferson, Ku Klux Klan, Fries, s Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, Bill of Rights, Second Amendment, etc.

ISBN:

0195147863
9780195147865
9780195147865 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195147863 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005036605

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)