Armed in America a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry
"This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and Colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it...
| Main Author: | Charles, Patrick J. (Historian) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- "In guns we trust" : bearing arms in America today
- The antecedents of the Second Amendment
- American Constitutionalism and the Second Amendment
- The transformative nineteenth century
- The gun-rights movement develops
- The NRA commandeers the gun-rights movement
- Gun rights under fire
- The birth of the gun-rights golden age
- Epilogue.