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- catalog abstract ""Exploring how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms, the selections expose readers to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11523747.
- catalog contributor b11523748.
- catalog coverage "United States Militia History.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Exploring how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms, the selections expose readers to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "The document: Constitutional amendments proposed to and ratified by the States, inluding the Second Amendment -- Introduction: "To keep and bear arms" : the militia, the people, and the problem of rights in revolutionary America -- Scholars and the Second Amendment -- Some current questions: Did the Second Amendment protect an individual's right to own guns? -- The armed citizen in the early republic / Robert E. Shalhope -- Was the Second Amendment intended to protect the people's right to maintain a well-regulated militia? -- A well-regulated militia: the origins and meaning of the Second Amendment, from The Bill of Rights: a lively heritage / Lawrence Delbert Cress -- Does the standard model of the Second Amendment favored by some legal scholars distort the original understanding of the right to bear arms? -- To keep and bear arms, with letters in rebuttal from Sanford Levinson, David C. Williams, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Garry Wills -- Was the Second Amendment primarily about the struggle between Federalists and Antifederalists over the nature of federalism? -- The federalized militia debate: a neglected aspect of Second Amendment scholarship / Don Higginbotham -- How did the reality of the militia differ from the ideal of the militia in revolutionary America? -- The people in arms: the invincible Yeoman, from Inventing the People: the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America -- Was the Second Amendment an outgrowth of America's gun culture? -- The origins of gun culture in the United States, 1760-1865 / Michael A. Bellesiles.".
- catalog extent "xv, 188 p. :".
- catalog identifier "031222818X (hardcover)".
- catalog identifier "0312240600 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Historians at work".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Bedford / St.Martin's".
- catalog spatial "United States Militia History.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Constitutional amendments United States.".
- catalog subject "Constitutional history United States.".
- catalog subject "Firearms Law and legislation United States.".
- catalog subject "KF3941.A7 W46 2000".
- catalog subject "United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment History.".
- catalog subject "United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The document: Constitutional amendments proposed to and ratified by the States, inluding the Second Amendment -- Introduction: "To keep and bear arms" : the militia, the people, and the problem of rights in revolutionary America -- Scholars and the Second Amendment -- Some current questions: Did the Second Amendment protect an individual's right to own guns? -- The armed citizen in the early republic / Robert E. Shalhope -- Was the Second Amendment intended to protect the people's right to maintain a well-regulated militia? -- A well-regulated militia: the origins and meaning of the Second Amendment, from The Bill of Rights: a lively heritage / Lawrence Delbert Cress -- Does the standard model of the Second Amendment favored by some legal scholars distort the original understanding of the right to bear arms? -- To keep and bear arms, with letters in rebuttal from Sanford Levinson, David C. Williams, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Garry Wills -- Was the Second Amendment primarily about the struggle between Federalists and Antifederalists over the nature of federalism? -- The federalized militia debate: a neglected aspect of Second Amendment scholarship / Don Higginbotham -- How did the reality of the militia differ from the ideal of the militia in revolutionary America? -- The people in arms: the invincible Yeoman, from Inventing the People: the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America -- Was the Second Amendment an outgrowth of America's gun culture? -- The origins of gun culture in the United States, 1760-1865 / Michael A. Bellesiles.".
- catalog title "Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect? / readings selected and introduced by Saul Cornell ; selections by Robert E. Shalhope ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".