The militia and the right to arms, or, How the Second Amendment fell silent /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uviller, H. Richard
Other Authors: Merkel, William G., 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Constitutional conflicts.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.