H. Richard Uviller, William G. Merkel

The Militia and the Right to Arms, Or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Uviller and Merkel offer a very valuable legal history of the militia and its relationship to the standing army. That history is the heart of this book, as their reading of the Second Amendment grows directly out of it. I have read accounts of these events dozens of times, but this one may be the best of all. It covers an enormous amount of ground in an astonishingly short space, in glorious prose, with a narrative flow that pulls the whole story together and sweeps the reader along."--David C. Williams, Indiana University School of Law

Produktdetails

• Constitutional Conflicts
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 147mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330318
• ISBN-10: 0822330318
• Artikelnr.: 21764856

Autorenporträt

H. Richard Uviller is Arthur Levitt Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is the author of The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair? and Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America. William G. Merkel has a J.D. from Columbia University and is completing his doctorate in History at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction
> Part I. Arms, the Man, and the Militia: The History of a Concept
1. The Gun in the American Self-Portrait
> 2. The Militia Ideal in the American Revolutionary Era
3. Madisonian Structuralism: The Place of the Militia in the New American
Science of Government
> Part II. From Militia to National Guard
4. The Decay of the Old Militia, 1789-1840
5. The Era of the Volunteers, 1840-1903
6. The United States Army and the United States Army National Guard in the
Twentieth Century
Part III. The Meaning of Meaning
7. Text and Context
8. Other Theories of Meaning Considered
9. The Emerson Case
Conclusion
Notes
Index