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

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

This book explains what it means to have a constitutional right - which is often less than people think. It examines how, and why, rights can be outweighed by 'compelling governmental interests'. Using historical examples, the book illuminates the nature of the judicial role in protecting genuinely meaningful rights.

The book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society. We are all entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving.

The book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society. We are all entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving.