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Well-regulated Militia
Saul T. Cornell
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Description for Well-regulated Militia
Paperback. In this comprehensive history of the bitter controversy surrounding the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Cornell provides a clear historical road map that charts how Americans have become deeply divided over gun control, and how they arrived at the current impasse over guns. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: LNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading constitutional historian, shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but as a civic right--an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could ... Read more
Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading constitutional historian, shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor a collective right, but as a civic right--an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195341034
SKU
V9780195341034
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About Saul T. Cornell
Saul Cornell is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and Director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute. An authority on constitutional history and especially on the Second Amendment, he is the author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America and editor of Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the ... Read more
Reviews for Well-regulated Militia
This intelligent, carefully rendered history of gun policy in the United States...is challenging but essential reading for scholars, specialised undergraduates, and readers interested in law, criminal justice, and public affairs.
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