The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller

ISBN-13: 9781107158696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 212 str.

Joseph Blocher; Darrell A. H. Miller

Opis

Provides the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the Second Amendment as constitutional law - dispelling many myths along the way.

Recenzje

'… a significant contribution to our understanding of the Second Amendment and the way we should approach understanding its impact on American public policy. This work is particularly relevant in light of the frequency that the public must grapple with the presence of guns in daily life.' Charles F. Jacobs, Law and Politics Book Review

Spis treści

Introduction: the gun debate and the Constitution; 1. Gun rights and regulation in American history; 2. Militias, private purposes, and the road to Heller; 3. Understanding Heller; 4. Heller's aftermath: 'a vast Terra Incognita'; 5. The constitutional grammar of the Second Amendment; 6. What is the Second Amendment for?; 7. Second Amendment law and the gun debate.