The militia and the right to arms, or, How the second amendment fell silent / H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel

Author: Uviller, H. Richard
Uniform Title: Militia and the right to arms
Additional Titles: How the second amendment fell silent
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2018]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators: Merkel, William G., 1965-

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Constitutional conflicts

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The gun in the American self-portrait -- The militia ideal in the American revolutionary era -- Madisonian structuralism: the place of the militia in the new American science of government -- The decay of the old militia, 1789-1840 -- The era of the volunteers, 1840-1903 -- The United States Army and the United States Army National Guard in the twentieth century -- Text and context -- Other theories of meaning considered -- The Emerson case.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-316) and index.

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