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To Trust the People with Arms
In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme
Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The
resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller
(2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction
to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was
followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v.
City of Chicago , and in 2022, the Court further expanded its
support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and
Pistol Association v. Bruen -a decision whose far-reaching
implications are still being unraveled. To Trust the People
with Arms explores the remarkable and complex legal history of
how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the nation's
founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is
now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first
century.
Robert J. Cottrol and Brannon P. Denning link the right to bear
arms with other major themes in American history. Prompted by the
eighteenth-century belief that arms played a vital role in
preserving the liberties of the citizen, the Second Amendment met
many challenges in the nation's history. Among the most acute of
these were racism, racial violence, and the extension of the right
to bear arms to African Americans and other marginalized groups.
The development of modern firearms and twentieth-century
urbanization also challenged traditional notions concerning the
value of an armed population. Cottrol and Denning make a
particularly important contribution linking the nation's
participation in the wars of the twentieth century and the
strengthening of American gun culture. Most of all, they give a
nuanced and sophisticated legal history that engages legal realism,
different varieties of originalism, and the role of chance and
accident in history. To Trust the People with Arms
integrates history, politics, and law in an interdisciplinary way
to illustrate the roles that guns and the right to keep and bear
arms have played in American history, culture, and law.
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The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment, which concerns the right of the people to keep and bear arms, has been the subject of great debate for decades. Does it protect an individual's right to arms or only the right of the states to maintain militias? In this book David C. Williams offers a new reading of the Second Amendment: that it guarantees to individuals a right to arms only insofar as they are part of a united and consensual people, so that their uprising can be a unified revolution rather than a civil war.Williams argues that the Second Amendment has been based on myths about America-the Framers' belief in American unity and modern interpreters' belief in American distrust and disunity. Neither of these myths, however, will adequately curb political violence. Williams suggests that the amendment should serve not as a rule of law but as a cultural ideal that promotes our unity on the use of political violence and celebrates our diversity in other areas of life.
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A right to bear arms? : the contested role of history in contemporary debates on the Second Amendment
\"The history of firearm use and possession is a topic of considerable contemporary debate. Yet, what do we actually know about firearms in the Anglo-American tradition? How is the history of firearms taught and remembered? In recent years historians and legal scholars have examined different threads of the densely interwoven relationships between firearms and American culture and society. This history stretches back to 14th-century England and includes locations as diverse as Puritan Massachusetts and 19th-century Dodge City. Rather than assume a static, unchanging relationship to firearms, historians and legal scholars have shown that this history has been closely related to the broader processes of social change that transformed American society from an early modern pre-industrial culture governed by a powerful monarch to a multi-cultural industrial democracy. The book addresses aspects of the current state of historical scholarship on firearms; offers a rare, bipartisan view of the significant breadth of the current state of historical scholarship on firearms history; and includes views of legal practitioners with divergent interpretations of the current meaning of the Second Amendment.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The future of the gun
The author believes that \"potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, [what he sees as] the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people ... and ... [threatens] to stop progress in its tracks\"--Amazon.com.
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The law of the land : a grand tour of our constitutional republic
From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Wyoming, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of secession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the fundamental wrongness of the Bush v. Gore decision.Amar profiles Alabama's Hugo Black, the dominant constitutional jurist of the twentieth century, and California's Anthony Kennedy, the powerful swing justice on the current Court. He probes Brown v. Board of Education, and explores the divisiveness of the Second and Fourth Amendments. An expert guide to America's constitutional landscape, Amar sheds new light on American history and politics and shows how America's legal tradition unites a vast and disparate land.
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How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis
\"In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How America Got Its Guns
In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced.
Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history.
Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future.
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