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

Author/creator Cornell, Saul
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Contents English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America -- A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment -- "The true palladium of liberty" : federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment -- Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms -- Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns -- Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-261) and index.
LCCN 2005036605
ISBN0195147863 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780195147865

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