Uviller / Merkel / Devins The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8427-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional Conflicts

Provides a historically grounded examination of the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment and an interpretation of the rights it safeguards (or doesn't) in the light of that historical understanding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uviller, H. Richard

Merkel, William G.

Devins, Neal

Graber, Mark A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.