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The right to bear arms

Author: Robert Winters
Publisher: Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, ©2006.
Series: Bill of Rights (San Diego, Calif.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An examination of whether the 2nd Amendment supports an individual right to own guns or a collective right of states to raise and regulate militias, court rulings on the issue, and implications for gun control.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Winters
ISBN: 0737719338 9780737719338
OCLC Number: 58422910
Description: 125 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Ch. I. The founders' intent in creating the Second Amendment --
1. The founders intended to protect individual gun rights / Joyce Lee Malcolm --
2. The founders did not intend to protect individual gun rights / Garry Wills --
3. The founders intended most citizens to be armed --
Sanford Levinson --
4. The founders intended to preserve state militias / Paul Finkelman --
Ch. II. The Supreme Court interprets the Second Amendment --
5. The court rules that the Second Amendment applies only to Congress / Morrision Remick Waite --
6. The Second Amendment does not forbid state from regulating arms / William Woods --
7. The court upholds a federal gun control law / James McReynolds --
8. Banning convicted felons from owning guns is constitutional --
Harry Blackmun --
9. The Supreme Court's decisions point away from individual gun rights / Michael C. Dorf. Ch. III. Perspectives on gun rights and gun control --
10. Second Amendment rights are essential for liberty / Charlton Heston --
11. Second Amendment rights should be limited / David L. Goldberg --
12. Handguns should be eliminated from society / Josh Sugarmann --
13. Banning handguns is not a practical option / James B. Jacobs.
Series Title: Bill of Rights (San Diego, Calif.)
Responsibility: edited by Robert Winters.

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An examination of whether the 2nd Amendment supports an individual right to own guns or a collective right of states to raise and regulate militias, court rulings on the issue, and implications for gun control.

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